Results
A total of 9417 children's record (respondent) were found in the child Alternative Medicine file of the 2007 NHIS.This finding indicated a NPE of more than 73.7 million children.Of these children,2.5%(NPE= 1 849 168) and 2.9% (NPE= 2 115 295 indicated use of MT and RT,respectively, within the 12 months prior to the 2007 NHIS.Most of the users--- 95% for MT and 55.7% for RT---reported that they had used only one specific subtype of therapy, with a few reporting use of 4 to 5 subtype