Postmodern values, attitudes and the use of complementary medicine

O’Callaghan, Frances Veronica; Jordan, N.

doi:10.1016/s0965-2299(02)00109-7

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“…Cross-sectional questionnaire studies show that people who use CAM are more likely than non users to hold pro-CAM beliefs, including beliefs in holistic health, natural treatments and participating in treatment (Astin, 1998;Furnham & Forey, 1994;O'Callaghan & Jordan, 2003) and to be dissatisfied with orthodox medicine (Furnham & Kirkaldy, 1996;McGregor & Peay, 1996;Sirois & Gick, 2002). Qualitative interview studies with CAM users suggest that belief in holistic health might be involved in deciding to continue using CAM (Mercer & Reilly, 2004).…”

Section: Treatment Beliefs and Cam Usementioning

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Treatment appraisals and beliefs predict adherence to complementary therapies: A prospective study using a dynamic extended self‐regulation model

Bishop

Yardley

Lewith

2008

British J Health Psychol

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Design: A prospective self-report questionnaire study was carried out with a 3-month follow-up period.Methods: 240 patients from 5 CAM clinics completed self-report questionnaire measures of treatment beliefs, illness perceptions and treatment appraisals at baseline. 3 months later they completed self-report measures of adherence to therapists' recommendations concerning attendance, remedy use and lifestyle changes.

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Section: Treatment Beliefs and Cam Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Treatment appraisals and beliefs predict adherence to complementary therapies: A prospective study using a dynamic extended self‐regulation model

Bishop

Yardley

Lewith

2008

British J Health Psychol

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“…Apparently, users of CAM treatments are found among those who have higher degrees in science (ibid), indicating that it is probably not appropriate to link individuals' positive attitude towards the use of CAM treatments simple to their lack of scientific reasoning abilities and critical thinking skills. However, research has shown that persons' attraction towards CAM could be related to their adherence of post-modern philosophy, which might involve adoption to certain values, worldview and beliefs, such as emphasis on nature and natural remedies, anti-science sentiments, holistic view of health, and rejection of scientific authority (Siahpush, 1999;O'Callaghan & Jordan, 2003). Pettersen & Olsen (2005) have recently demonstrated that Norwegian health science students' positive attitude towards CAM correlated positively with their beliefs in paranormal phenomena, and that reliable knowledge is obtained by intuition/spiritual experiences.…”

Section: Students' Attitudes Towards Cammentioning

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Critical thinking in Norwegian upper secondary biology education: The cases of complementary-alternative-medicine and health claims in the media

Pettersen

2005

NorDiNa

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Sverre Pettersen was a laboratory researcher in the field of coronary heart diseases before he in 1992 became an associate professor at Akershus University College, Lillestrøm, where he teaches biological sciences for nursing students, as well as being supervisor for students attending the college's master programme. He has also taught biology, chemistry and mathematics in Norwegian upper secondary school for 12 years. From the year of 2000 he has followed the doctoral programme in science education at the Institute of teacher training and school development, University of Oslo. In his present research project, he mainly explores the "status" of science and scientific knowledge among students and teachers of Norwegian health sciences. AbstractBy definition, complementary alternative medicine (CAM) treatments are not scientifically proven. Scientific deficient health claiming news seems to flourish in the media. The aims of this questionnaire study was to explore: (1) attitudes towards CAM among 3 rd year students of the health sciences in Norway, who either have immersed themselves in the 2 nd and 3 rd year upper secondary biology courses, or taken the 1 st year compulsory natural science course, exclusively, and (2) these students' skills in requesting for scientific information in highly deficient health news briefs. There were no significant differences in the frequencies of positive attitude towards the use of CAM treatments between the two health sciences student categories, and most students in both categories "failed" in the test set out to measure their skills in requesting for scientific information in four highly scientific deficient health news briefs. The results suggest that teaching of the Norwegian upper secondary biology courses does probably not contribute extensively to pupils' development of scepticism towards CAM, and skills in evaluating health claims, scientifically. [62] 2/05 engage in or think about science (Kuhn, 2001). Intrinsic to epistemic understanding is knowledge of the criteria by which scientific knowledge is evaluated. Such criteria include plausible causal mechanisms, parsimony, consistency with observed data, and consistency with current theories (Lederman, 1992).

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“…We verwachten wel dat mensen die zich rekenen tot een religieuze groepering in hun opvattingen ook ruimte laten voor invloed van een hogere macht en voor meer traditionele, voor-wetenschappelijke geneeswijzen. Verder verwachten we dat een postmoderne levensfilosofie congruent is met alternatieve geneeswijzen (O'Callaghan & Jordan 2003). Zowel in sommige religieuze groeperingen als binnen groepen mensen met postmoderne opvattingen bestaat (om heel verschillende redenen) weerstand tegen sommige vormen van preventie.…”

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“…De opvattingen over ziekte en zorg die ten grondslag liggen aan alternatieve geneeswijzen, sluiten aan bij een postmodern wereldbeeld (O'Callaghan & Jordan, 2003). Bij mensen met een postmodern wereldbeeld is de moderne levensfilosofie met zijn nadruk op vooruitgangsgeloof, wetenschap als kennisbron bij uitstek en doelrationaliteit onder kritiek komen te staan (Dekker et al, 2001; zie ook Schnabel, 1981).…”

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Levensfilosofie en zorggebruik in Nederland

Marangos¹,

Groenewegen²

2010

Mens en maatschappij

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Philosophies of life and Health Care Utilization in the Netherlands .This study investigates to what extent people’s religious denomination relates to health care utilization. Religious denomination is seen as an indicator of a philosophy of life. We distinguish between Christian and Islamic religious and post-modern philosophies of life. Given that modern medical science and ensuing health care interventions are widely accepted, we do not expect a relationship between philosophies of life and the utilization of regular sources of modern health care. However, we do expect differences in areas where more controversy is possible, especially complementary and alternative medicine, but also preventive medicine. As expected, our results show philosophy of life differences in utilization for complementary and alternative medicine.

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Postmodern values, attitudes and the use of complementary medicine

Cited by 67 publications

References 15 publications

Treatment appraisals and beliefs predict adherence to complementary therapies: A prospective study using a dynamic extended self‐regulation model

Treatment appraisals and beliefs predict adherence to complementary therapies: A prospective study using a dynamic extended self‐regulation model

Critical thinking in Norwegian upper secondary biology education: The cases of complementary-alternative-medicine and health claims in the media

Levensfilosofie en zorggebruik in Nederland

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