Table 3.

Viewing acupuncture as a natural alternative to medicine

I’d rather have acupuncture instead of medication because it something that I don’t have to put in my body.

Subject V: 60yrs, African American, High School education

I hate taking pills. I have enough of ‘em to take as it is.

Subject K: 69yrs, African American, College education

Because I think as a cancer person, who has had cancer and has been treated with very invasive means, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, you don’t want another foreign object in your body.

Subject T: 45yrs, Caucasian, Graduate/Professional education

I’m not a person that likes to take meds. So, I would think there would be a little bit more natural for you.

Subject S: 56yrs, African American, College education

…Because I’m taking enough medicine now…I take six pills…seven, eight, nine, ten pills a day…you, that’s just too many pills.

Subject O: 73yrs, African American, High School education