The complementary medicine literature generally focuses on the stages of and the influences on decision-making .Patient are proposed to go through several stages in their decision-making e.g. discovery and investigation ; decision regarding complementary medicine are often interlinked with dicisions regarding conventional medicine ; patients often revisit the complementary medicine decision sometime after initial complementary medicine decision are made ; and patients preferentially seek information and utilize complementary medicine recommended by trusted health practitioners and individuals such as family and friends.