Complementary and alternative medicine use among undergraduate nursing & midwifery students in Turkey

Knowledge, attitude and use of complementary and alternative medicine among nurses: A systematic review

“…Of the 21 included studies, all provided cross-sectional data with participants representing 13 different countries. Seven studies were from the U.S. [16,[22][23][24][25][26][27], three were from Australia and Turkey [28][29][30][31][32][33], with one from each of the following countries: Iran [15], Israel [34], Italy [35], Korea [36], Netherlands [37], Cyprus [38], China [39], Germany [33], Switzerland [33], and Pakistan [40]. The primary target populations across studies were nurses in clinical practice (n=15), nursing students (n=4), and nursing faculty (n=2); one study targeted only nurse-midwives.…”

Health Care and Social Work Student’s: Choice between Complementary and Alternative Medicine or Conventional Medicine on a 5 Point Severity Scale of Diseases

“…Our previous results also found that health care students were convinced that the integration of CAM in the curricula is needed [26], since that could help to improve the holistic approach of treating diseases [22,23,26,37].…”

“…The difference was significant on moderate (62.9% vs. 49.9%, p=0.013), serious (69.4% vs. 58.8%, p=0.041) and the most serious (71.8% vs. 59.9%, p=0.019) levels. The reason for these results might be that the education of health care students is based on conventional medicine and it may substantially determine their attitudes towards CAM [37].…”

Attitudes Of Nursing Students Toward Holistic Complemantary And Alternative Medicine

“…(11) hemşi-relik ve tıp fakültesi öğrencileri ile yaptıkları çalış-malarında hemşirelik bölümü öğrencilerinin tamamlayıcı ve alternatif tıbba yönelik düşüncelerinin tıp fakültesi öğrencilerinden daha pozitif olduğunu ve her iki öğrenci grubunun da TAT konusundaki bilgisinin sınırlı olduğunu ifade etmiştir. Çamurdan ve Gül (12) öğrencilerin büyük çoğunluğunun tamamlayı-cı ve alternatif tıbbı kullandıklarını ve hastalarına da tavsiye ettiklerini ifade etmişlerdir.…”

“…Hemşirelik öğrencilerinin standart lisans eğitiminin bir parçası olarak TAT terapilerinin etkisi ve güvenli-ği konusunda eğitim almaları gerekmektedir. Hasta bakımında hastaların TAT hakkındaki sorularını cevaplayabilmek için hemşirelik öğrencilerinin müf-redat programlarında bu bütünleştirici modellerin yer alması önemlidir (10,12,16,17) .…”