A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran
Personal beliefs of medical students may interfere with their tendency for learning Complementary and Alternative Medicine concepts. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine in Urmia, Iran. A structured questionnair...
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| author | Mahshid Sadeghi MD Soheila Rabiepoor PhD Aida Sefidani Forough PharmD Shiva Jabbari MD Shahram Shahabi MD |
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| description | Personal beliefs of medical students may interfere with their tendency for learning Complementary and Alternative Medicine concepts. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine in Urmia, Iran. A structured questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. One hundred questionnaires were returned. Thirty-one percent of students reported use of alternative medicine for at least once. Iranian Traditional Medicine was the main type of alternative medicine used by medical students (93.5%). Neuromuscular disorders were the main indication of alternative medicine use among students (34.4%). Ninety percent of participants demonstrated competent knowledge about acupuncture while the lowest scores belonged to homeopathy (12%). Study results showed that 49% of medical students had positive attitudes and demonstrated a willingness to receive training on the subject. Thus, there appears a necessity to integrate complementary and alternative medicine into the medical curriculum, by taking expectations and feedbacks of medical students into consideration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2baf5a917b524d0ca9a7f7751bd089692022-12-21T19:33:08ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine2156-58722156-58992016-10-012110.1177/2156587215605751A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, IranMahshid Sadeghi MD0Soheila Rabiepoor PhD1Aida Sefidani Forough PharmD2Shiva Jabbari MD3Shahram Shahabi MD4 Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran Amiral Momenin General Hospital, Khodabandeh, Iran Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, IranPersonal beliefs of medical students may interfere with their tendency for learning Complementary and Alternative Medicine concepts. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine in Urmia, Iran. A structured questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. One hundred questionnaires were returned. Thirty-one percent of students reported use of alternative medicine for at least once. Iranian Traditional Medicine was the main type of alternative medicine used by medical students (93.5%). Neuromuscular disorders were the main indication of alternative medicine use among students (34.4%). Ninety percent of participants demonstrated competent knowledge about acupuncture while the lowest scores belonged to homeopathy (12%). Study results showed that 49% of medical students had positive attitudes and demonstrated a willingness to receive training on the subject. Thus, there appears a necessity to integrate complementary and alternative medicine into the medical curriculum, by taking expectations and feedbacks of medical students into consideration.https://doi.org/10.1177/2156587215605751 |
| spellingShingle | Mahshid Sadeghi MD Soheila Rabiepoor PhD Aida Sefidani Forough PharmD Shiva Jabbari MD Shahram Shahabi MD A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine |
| title | A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran |
| title_full | A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran |
| title_fullStr | A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran |
| title_short | A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran |
| title_sort | survey of medical students knowledge and attitudes toward complementary and alternative medicine in urmia iran |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/2156587215605751 |
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