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Why people use herbal medicine: insights from a focus-group study in Germany

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2160-6

Published Online: 2018-03-15

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Welz, Alexandra N.

Emberger-Klein, Agnes

Menrad, Klaus
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Funding for this research was provided by:

BMBF (ExBiNaH)
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Article History

Received: 27 July 2017

Accepted: 7 March 2018

First Online: 15 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval was not applicable for the type of human data presented in this study, as detailed in official documents by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Society for Sociology (DGS) [CitationRef removed,CitationRef removed]. We additionally followed the ethical principles of the Helsinki declaration, the DFG and DGS. Accordingly participants of the focus groups gave informed consent.

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