📂The materials, data and codes to replicate the findings are available openly on OSF: osf.io/dk8jh/

✨The obtained measurement invariance suggests that TCAM practices convey similar psychological meanings across countries/cultures and have similar patterns of use and that the instrument is a valid and useful tool for cross cultural research of TCAM use.

✨In the second study, we also relied on a multigroup CFA approach, where we found metric invariance of the structure across three countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the UK).

✨Across two studies, we identified and replicated a hierarchical structure with a second-order factor subsuming four first-order factors (alternative medical systems, new-age medicine, natural product-based medicine, and rituals/customs).

🌿🧘‍♀️📿🧴Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) includes a wide range of alternative healthcare practices - we set out to test for the most appropriate structure of a comprehensive instrument measuring TCAM use.

📣NEW PAPER: "Are quantum medicine proponents more likely to practice yoga? An empirical taxonomy of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine practices" is now out in Current Psychology!

Read the postprint version here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...