Exploring Predictors of Health Sciences Students’ Attitudes Towards Complementary-Alternative Medicine

Pettersen, Sverre; Olsen, Rolf Vegar

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“…Explanation theories to both paranormal phenomena and CAM effects are often highly pseudoscientific, and should preferably be a concern to science education (Martin, 1994;Sampson, 2001). The study of Pettersen and Olsen (2005) also showed that health science students' less scientific worldview (operationalized by several attitude measuring constructs) predicted their positive attitude towards CAM.…”

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“…However, research has shown that persons' attraction towards CAM could be related to their adherence of post-modern philosophy, which might involve adoption to certain values, worldview and beliefs, such as emphasis on nature and natural remedies, anti-science sentiments, holistic view of health, and rejection of scientific authority (Siahpush, 1999;O'Callaghan & Jordan, 2003). Pettersen & Olsen (2005) have recently demonstrated that Norwegian health science students' positive attitude towards CAM correlated positively with their beliefs in paranormal phenomena, and that reliable knowledge is obtained by intuition/spiritual experiences. Paranormal phenomena could be defined as events that violate the boundaries of current scientific beliefs (Goode, 2002).…”

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Critical thinking in Norwegian upper secondary biology education: The cases of complementary-alternative-medicine and health claims in the media

Pettersen

2005

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Sverre Pettersen was a laboratory researcher in the field of coronary heart diseases before he in 1992 became an associate professor at Akershus University College, Lillestrøm, where he teaches biological sciences for nursing students, as well as being supervisor for students attending the college's master programme. He has also taught biology, chemistry and mathematics in Norwegian upper secondary school for 12 years. From the year of 2000 he has followed the doctoral programme in science education at the Institute of teacher training and school development, University of Oslo. In his present research project, he mainly explores the "status" of science and scientific knowledge among students and teachers of Norwegian health sciences. AbstractBy definition, complementary alternative medicine (CAM) treatments are not scientifically proven. Scientific deficient health claiming news seems to flourish in the media. The aims of this questionnaire study was to explore: (1) attitudes towards CAM among 3 rd year students of the health sciences in Norway, who either have immersed themselves in the 2 nd and 3 rd year upper secondary biology courses, or taken the 1 st year compulsory natural science course, exclusively, and (2) these students' skills in requesting for scientific information in highly deficient health news briefs. There were no significant differences in the frequencies of positive attitude towards the use of CAM treatments between the two health sciences student categories, and most students in both categories "failed" in the test set out to measure their skills in requesting for scientific information in four highly scientific deficient health news briefs. The results suggest that teaching of the Norwegian upper secondary biology courses does probably not contribute extensively to pupils' development of scepticism towards CAM, and skills in evaluating health claims, scientifically. [62] 2/05 engage in or think about science (Kuhn, 2001). Intrinsic to epistemic understanding is knowledge of the criteria by which scientific knowledge is evaluated. Such criteria include plausible causal mechanisms, parsimony, consistency with observed data, and consistency with current theories (Lederman, 1992).

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Section: Students' Attitudes Towards Cammentioning

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Critical thinking in Norwegian upper secondary biology education: The cases of complementary-alternative-medicine and health claims in the media

Pettersen

2005

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“…In health sciences students, female students were also shown to have a significantly more positive attitude than male students regarding the use of CAM 21) . Female students are more open to ideas and theories supporting alternative forms of medicine than are male students and have more of a tendency to accept CAM than male students 22) .…”

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<b>Gender Differences in Attitudes regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Health Care Profession Students in Japan</b>

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which they had positive opinions regarding clinical usefulness and recommendation to patients. [Key words]complementary and alternative medicine, CAM, gender difference, student, attitude INTRODUCTIONThe use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been increasing worldwide in recent years and CAM has been more frequently used by females than by males. In a general population, women are more likely to use CAM and to be interested in receiving CAM [1][2][3][4] . A cross-sectional study in the United States showed a strong association of female gender with CAM use across ethnic minorities 5) . In patients in northern Israel, women visiting primary care clinics used CAM more often than did men 6,7) . Several studies have shown more frequent use of CAM by women than by men for chronic and life-threatening illnesses [8][9][10] . Corbin et al. reported that there was a gender difference among US physicians regarding their interest in CAM education and that female physicians were more likely than male physicians to recommend CAM for pa-.On the other hand, it has been reported that female students in a medical school had significantly more positive attitudes toward CAM than did male students [12][13][14][15] , but several studies have shown no significant difference in gender regarding attitudes toward CAM 16,17) . Therefore, gender difference in theObjective: Gender differences in attitudes toward and knowledge of CAM among health care profession students have not been evaluated in Japan. We examined gender differences in opinions, attitudes and knowledge regarding CAM among Japanese health care profession students. Methods:The subjects of this study were 1465 health care profession students. We used a questionnaire to obtain information on knowledge, sources of information, personal use, interest, willingness to take lectures, opinions regarding effectiveness and willingness to recommend for 17 different CAM modalities. Results:The proportions of female students with sufficient knowledge or a little knowledge of massage, chiropractic, Japanese herbal medicine, aromatherapy, diet, dietary supplements, psychotherapy, yoga and music therapy were significantly higher than the proportions of male students (p < 0.05). The frequencies of personal use of aromatherapy and yoga by female students were significantly higher than those by male students (p < 0.05). Female students had high levels of interest in aromatherapy, massage, yoga and chiropractic, while male students had high levels of interest in Japanese herbal medicine, massage and psychotherapy. Both female and male students had positive opinions regarding clinical usefulness and recommendation for massage, Japanese herbal medicine and psychotherapy (p < 0.05). Conclusions:Female students are more likely to have positive and favorable attitudes toward CAM than are male students in Japan. CAM modalities that female students had an interest in and used were different from CAM modalities for acupuncture, Ayurveda, homeopathy, massage, chiropractic, reflexolo...

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“…14 Nevertheless, according to Pettersen and Olsen, these kinds of demographic variables explain very little of the variance in CAM attitudes compared to world views and beliefs. 15 According to several authors, dissatisfaction with conventional medicine or demographic variables are not the main reasons one turns to alternative medicine. 6,9,15 People use CAM mostly because these health systems are more congruent with their values and beliefs.…”

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Who Turns to Acupuncture? The Role of Mistrust of Rationality and Individualist Success

Clobert

Saroglou

Pachterbeke

2015

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Exploring Predictors of Health Sciences Students’ Attitudes Towards Complementary-Alternative Medicine

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Critical thinking in Norwegian upper secondary biology education: The cases of complementary-alternative-medicine and health claims in the media

Critical thinking in Norwegian upper secondary biology education: The cases of complementary-alternative-medicine and health claims in the media

<b>Gender Differences in Attitudes regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Health Care Profession Students in Japan</b>

Who Turns to Acupuncture? The Role of Mistrust of Rationality and Individualist Success

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