The relationship between health sciences students' perceptions of health news and their attitudes to using complementary and alternative medicine
Autor: | Derya Uzelli Yilmaz, Derya Karatekin, Sevil Hamarat Tuncalı, Feyza Dereli |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Complementary and Manual Therapy
Adult Complementary Therapies Male medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Students Health Occupations Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Alternative medicine Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Perception Medicine Humans Social media 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Advanced and Specialized Nursing Medical education Rehabilitation business.industry Communications Media Significant difference Cross-Sectional Studies Complementary and alternative medicine Scale (social sciences) Female business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Biomedical sciences |
Zdroj: | Complementary therapies in medicine. 52 |
ISSN: | 1873-6963 |
Popis: | Written-visual and social media play a significant role in accessing knowledge about health issues. Media coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can affect the beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and decisions to use of CAM the individuals. The research was planned as a descriptive, cross-sectional study was to evaluate the relationship between the health sciences students' perceptions of health news and their attitude towards using CAM.The sample included 736 students studying in a Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, and Nutrition and Dietetics program in a Faculty of Health Sciences. A Students' Description Form, The Perception of Health News Scale (PHNS), and The Attitude towards Using Complementary Treatments Scale (ACTS) were used to collect the data in this study.The students' mean PHNS scores were found to be 81.05 ± 13.42, and their mean ACTS scores were 30.07 ± 6.56. There was a statistically significant difference between HS students' mean PHMS scores and usage of CAM and following of health news on the written-visual media (p0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between HS students' mean ACTS scores and their department of study, year of study, usage of CAM, education on CAM, usage of social media, following of health news on the written-visual media and following health news on social media (p0.05). A weak positive correlation was found between the students' PHNS scores and their ACTS scores (r = 0.189, p = 0.000).In the conclusion of our research, it was found that HS students' perception of health news may affect their attitudes towards using CAM. |
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