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Awareness, Self-Use, Perceptions, Beliefs, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) among Health Professional Students in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
المؤلفون المشاركون
Khan, Aslam
Ahmed, Mohamed Eldigre
Aldarmahi, Ahmed
Zaidi, Syed Faisal
Subahi, Ahmad M.
Al Shaikh, Adnan
Alghamdy, Zackary
Alhakami, Lujain Ali
المصدر
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
العدد
المجلد 2020، العدد 2020 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2020)، ص ص. 1-11، 11ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2020-04-21
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
11
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
Around 75% of the world’s population relies on the use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) for their healthcare.
Thus, we aimed at assessing the attitude and perception of health professional students about CAM and correlate the results with their demographical data.
Methods.
An observational cross-sectional study was conducted at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by enrolling 350 students.
A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection.
Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed using SPSS.
Results.
Results of our data suggested that majority of students were aware of the CAM modalities and considered prayers/spirituality (83.6%), massage (72.5%), nutritional supplements (74.1%), cupping (68.5%), herbal medicine (66.2), and yoga (61.6%) as most effective and least harmful CAM modalities.
The students acquired more information about CAM from media (55%), books (56%), friends/relatives (59.7%), and other health professionals (58.4%), however, very little information from formal CAM courses or training (36.7%), which shows the lack of courses and trained health professional in the field of CAM.
Despite utilizing nonreliable sources of CAM information, the majority of students had positive attitudes and perceptions about CAM usage.
Majority of the students (75.8%) believe in the use of CAM for the mental and spiritual aspect of health and think that CAM providers give good information on maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The data also showed a significant P<0.05 association between awareness about CAM and gender.
A significantly higher percentage of female students were using yoga and aromatherapy, while cupping was mostly used by male students.
Similarly, a significant association was found among the different colleges and level of students in most of the CAM modalities.
However, no association was found between the awareness and use of CAM with the educational level of parents or relatives in health sector except for acupuncture and cupping, where student’s awareness about acupuncture and cupping was found to have a significant positive association with mother educational level.
On the other hand, a significant inverse association was found between acupuncture, yoga, cupping, and aromatherapy with family income.
Conclusion.
In conclusion, despite the lack of proper courses and professionally trained healthcare providers in the field of CAM, students demonstrated positive attitudes and beliefs toward the safety and effectiveness of CAM.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Khan, Aslam& Ahmed, Mohamed Eldigre& Aldarmahi, Ahmed& Zaidi, Syed Faisal& Subahi, Ahmad M.& Al Shaikh, Adnan…[et al.]. 2020. Awareness, Self-Use, Perceptions, Beliefs, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) among Health Professional Students in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157355
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Khan, Aslam…[et al.]. Awareness, Self-Use, Perceptions, Beliefs, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) among Health Professional Students in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157355
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Khan, Aslam& Ahmed, Mohamed Eldigre& Aldarmahi, Ahmed& Zaidi, Syed Faisal& Subahi, Ahmad M.& Al Shaikh, Adnan…[et al.]. Awareness, Self-Use, Perceptions, Beliefs, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) among Health Professional Students in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157355
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1157355
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