Frye Ann W, Sierpina Victor S, Boisaubin Eugene V, Bulik Robert J
Office of Educational Development, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0566, USA.
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2006 Feb;11(1):19-32. doi: 10.1007/s10459-005-1587-y.
With increasing national and international support for the development of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) curricula in American medical schools, it is essential to measure what learners know and believe about CAM in order to assess outcomes of new teaching efforts. This paper describes the development and initial results of a survey designed for those purposes. The survey is constructed so that earlier single-institution studies of students' attitudes toward CAM topics, preferred ways of learning about CAM, and students' use of CAM therapies for self-care might be replicated and extended. A pilot test of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( CAM) Survey was conducted with third-year medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Validity and reliability studies of the survey were conducted. Findings were compared to those of previously published studies. Interpretable subscales were constructed from survey questions. Students' attitudes toward CAM-related topics were generally favorable. More students were familiar with biological-based therapies than with other CAM therapies. The majority of respondents listed lectures as their preferred way to learn about CAM. Respondents' own CAM use varied; minority and economically-disadvantaged students were more likely to use CAM therapies than other students. The survey is a promising assessment of student attitudes toward and knowledge of CAM therapies.
随着美国医学院校在补充和替代医学（CAM）课程开发方面获得越来越多的国内和国际支持，为了评估新教学努力的成果，衡量学习者对补充和替代医学的了解和看法至关重要。本文描述了为此目的设计的一项调查的开发过程和初步结果。该调查的构建方式使得早期关于学生对补充和替代医学主题的态度、了解补充和替代医学的首选方式以及学生使用补充和替代医学疗法进行自我保健的单机构研究能够得以重复和扩展。对德克萨斯大学医学分校的三年级医学生进行了补充和替代医学（CAM）调查的预测试。对该调查进行了效度和信度研究。将研究结果与之前发表的研究结果进行了比较。从调查问题中构建了可解释的子量表。学生对与补充和替代医学相关主题的态度总体上是积极的。熟悉基于生物的疗法的学生比熟悉其他补充和替代医学疗法的学生更多。大多数受访者将讲座列为了解补充和替代医学的首选方式。受访者自身使用补充和替代医学疗法的情况各不相同；少数族裔和经济弱势学生比其他学生更有可能使用补充和替代医学疗法。该调查是对学生对补充和替代医学疗法的态度和知识的一项很有前景的评估。
