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Accepted: 16 January 2025

First Online: 19 March 2025

Declarations

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: This study is funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, the Food and Health Programme/UniServices Seed Funding and other non-specific University of Auckland funds (e.g. doctoral student research account and supervisor research development account).

: E Lyn Lee has received a bursary from the University of Maryland School of Medicine/Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field for working on a Cochrane Systematic Review and was a doctoral candidate studying the prevalence of use of TCAM and conventional medicines in New Zealand; part of this work is funded by a Health Research Council grant (2020-2022) for which Joanne Barnes is the principal investigator. Jeff Harrison was a co-investigator for a Health Research Council grant that explored the prevalence of the use of TCAM and conventional medicines in New Zealand. In the last 3 years, Joanne Barnes has received royalties from Elsevier and SpringerNature in respect of authorship of reference texts on herbal medicines; travel expenses and/or conference expenses from the United States Pharmacopeia, UK Drug Safety Research Unit, University of Mississippi, Southern Cross University and the International Society of Pharmacovigilance in respect of invited meetings/conference presentations; and non-financial support (clinical trial supplies) from Achieve Life Sciences and NZVAPOR (both 2022-24) as a co-investigator.

: The questionnaire testing study was approved by the Auckland Health Research Ethics Committee on 23/09/2021 for 3 years (Reference Number AH23232).

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Not applicable.

: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available as the researchers do not have the permissions from the participants or from a research ethics committee to share the data.

: Not applicable.

: All authors contributed to the idea for the article. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by ELL. The first draft of the article was written by ELL, and JB and JH critically revised the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.