International Journal of ody, Mind & Culture Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Health Studies Information for Authors AIM AND SCOPE managers and therapists to make more Modern medicine is thought to be in a integrative decisions. paradigmatic crisis in terms of the accelerative STUDY DESIGN demographic, epidemiologic, social, and We advise authors to design studies based on the discursive aspects. The ontological, appropriate guidelines. In randomized epistemological, and methodological gaps in controlled trials, the CONSORT guideline biomedicine lead to a chaotic condition in (www.consort-statement.org/consort-statement ), health beliefs and behaviors. 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