The attitudes of nursing students regarding the complementary and alternative medicine

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  • Nursan Cinar Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences
  • Funda Akduran Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences
  • Dilek Kose Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v18.37320

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Complementary Therapies, Students, Nursing, Staff Development

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The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of nursing students towards complementary and alternative medicine. The sample consists of voluntary students (n=152) who had been present at school at the date of data collection. The data was collected via a questionnaire prepared by researchers and also via the “Holistic Complementary and Alternative Medicine Questionnaire (HCAMQ) which was developed by Hyland et al. (2003). The mean age of students was 20.09±1.6 (min=17, max=24). The mean score of scale was 25.41 ± 5.25 (min=11, max=45). The total score average of the first graders was 24.77±5.46, and of the last graders was 27.1±4.26. The difference between them was found to be statistically significant (t=-2.482, p=0.014). It is detected that more than half of the student nurses have no information about complementary and alternative medicine and that last graders, compared to the first graders, have a more negative attitude towards CAM applications.

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Nursan Cinar, Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences

Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences, Esentepe Campus. Sakarya, Turkey. E-mail: ndede@sakarya.edu.tr.

Funda Akduran, Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences

Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences, Esentepe Campus. Sakarya, Turkey. E-mail: fsevgi@sakarya.edu.tr.

Dilek Kose, Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences

Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences, Esentepe Campus. Sakarya, Turkey. E-mail: dkose@sakarya.edu.tr.

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17/10/2016

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Cinar N, Akduran F, Kose D. The attitudes of nursing students regarding the complementary and alternative medicine. Rev. Eletr. Enferm. [Internet]. 17º de outubro de 2016 [citado 28º de março de 2024];18:e1174. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/37320

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