Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:To explore First Year medical students' rating of CAM therapies following a core teaching session. To determine the influence of student gender and previous experience of CAM and therapist/teacher gender and professional background on ratings. DESIGN:Survey; self-administered questionnaire following a teaching session. SETTING:First Year medical students Behavioural Science module CAM teaching session, University of Birmingham Medical School, UK. RESULTS:One hundred and fifty (71.0%) students completed a questionnaire. 56 (37.3%) students had previous experience of CAM, particularly where a family member already used it (P = < 0.001). Aromatherapy (29/56, 51.7%) and homoeopathy (17/56, 30.3%) were the most common therapies listed. Females were more likely than males to have used aromatherapy (P = 0.038) or reflexology (P = 0.007). Students using aromatherapy were more likely to have self treated (P = 0.01). Of 82 episodes of CAM use, most (67/82,81.7%) were stated to have been helpful. Hypnotherapy (P = 0.003) and aromatherapy (P = 0.015) were most helpful. Following the teaching session students rated therapies observed on a 10 point scale, 1 (extremely sceptical) to 10 (totally convinced). All were rated above the mid-point; highest rated was chiropractic (median score = 8), lowest, reflexology (median score = 5.06). Students who had previously used hypnotherapy gave it higher scores (P = 0.018). Students whose family used CAM were more likely to rate aromatherapy highly (P = .027) and to give homoeopathy a low score (P = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS:A short CAM teaching session early in the curriculum can inform students about the relationship of CAM with current medical practice. It can be used as a 'taster' prior to selection of Special Study Module choices in later years.
journal_name
Complement Ther Medjournal_title
Complementary therapies in medicineauthors
Greenfield SM,Innes MA,Allan TF,Wearn AMdoi
10.1054/ctim.2002.0501subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-03-01 00:00:00pages
27-32issue
1eissn
0965-2299issn
1873-6963pii
S0965-2299(02)90501-7journal_volume
10pub_type
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2012.04.003
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2013.08.008
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2014.02.007
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
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更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2019.06.003
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2018.12.015
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2008.08.004
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2018.03.013
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Complementary therapies in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2016.03.008
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00