Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014

Background: There is increasing national and worldwide interest on complementary therapies (CT). Aim: To describe and analyze the opinions and interest about CT among medical students. Material and Methods: An anonymous and voluntary survey with questions used in previous studies, was applied to stu...

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Autores principales:	Contreras,Diego, Alamos,María José, Chang,Mayling, Bedregal,Paula
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2015
Materias:	Attitude to health Complementary therapies Students, medical
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720150008000092015-10-01Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014Contreras,DiegoAlamos,María JoséChang,MaylingBedregal,Paula Attitude to health Complementary therapies Students, medical Background: There is increasing national and worldwide interest on complementary therapies (CT). Aim: To describe and analyze the opinions and interest about CT among medical students. Material and Methods: An anonymous and voluntary survey with questions used in previous studies, was applied to students from first to fifth year. Results: The survey was answered by 526 medical students, corresponding to 86% of the target population. The students knew about an average of 4.7 therapies, out of 12 displayed. The better known therapy was acupuncture, followed by homeopathy and reiki, which raised the greater interest. The knowledge and interest was higher among women, who also had a more favorable opinion about CT. The interest decreases and the proportion of unfavorable opinions increases among students of upper level courses. Forty nine percent of respondents have used CT for themselves and 22% had no experience whatsoever with them. Conclusions: In general, there is an appreciable knowledge, experience, interest and positive opinions toward CT. This favorable attitude is higher in women and decreases as career progresses. Medical students consider that they should have some approach to CT during their career.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.143 n.8 20152015-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872015000800009es10.4067/S0034-98872015000800009
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spellingShingle	Attitude to health Complementary therapies Students, medical Contreras,Diego Alamos,María José Chang,Mayling Bedregal,Paula Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014
description	Background: There is increasing national and worldwide interest on complementary therapies (CT). Aim: To describe and analyze the opinions and interest about CT among medical students. Material and Methods: An anonymous and voluntary survey with questions used in previous studies, was applied to students from first to fifth year. Results: The survey was answered by 526 medical students, corresponding to 86% of the target population. The students knew about an average of 4.7 therapies, out of 12 displayed. The better known therapy was acupuncture, followed by homeopathy and reiki, which raised the greater interest. The knowledge and interest was higher among women, who also had a more favorable opinion about CT. The interest decreases and the proportion of unfavorable opinions increases among students of upper level courses. Forty nine percent of respondents have used CT for themselves and 22% had no experience whatsoever with them. Conclusions: In general, there is an appreciable knowledge, experience, interest and positive opinions toward CT. This favorable attitude is higher in women and decreases as career progresses. Medical students consider that they should have some approach to CT during their career.
author	Contreras,Diego Alamos,María José Chang,Mayling Bedregal,Paula
author_facet	Contreras,Diego Alamos,María José Chang,Mayling Bedregal,Paula
author_sort	Contreras,Diego
title	Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014
title_short	Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014
title_full	Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014
title_fullStr	Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014
title_full_unstemmed	Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014
title_sort	opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la pontificia universidad católica de chile. año 2014
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2015
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Opiniones sobre terapias complementarias por parte de los estudiantes de medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Año 2014

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