School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Australia.
BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011 Oct 13;11:95. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-11-95.
In recent times the basic understanding, perceptions and CAM use among undergraduate health sciences students have become a topic of interest. This study was aimed to investigate the understanding, perceptions and self-use of CAM among pharmacy students in Malaysia.
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 500 systematically sampled pharmacy students from two private and one public university. A validated, self-administered questionnaire comprised of seven sections was used to gather the data. A systematic sampling was applied to recruit the students. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were applied using SPSS® version 18.
Overall, the students tend to disagree that complementary therapies (CM) are a threat to public health (mean score = 3.6) and agreed that CMs include ideas and methods from which conventional medicine could benefit (mean score = 4.7). More than half (57.8%) of the participants were currently using CAM while 77.6% had used it previously. Among the current CAM modalities used by the students, CM (21.9%) was found to be the most frequently used CAM followed by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (21%). Most of the students (74.8%) believed that lack of scientific evidence is one of the most important barriers obstructing them to use CAM. More than half of the students perceived TCM (62.8%) and music therapy (53.8%) to be effective. Majority of them (69.3%) asserted that CAM knowledge is necessary to be a well-rounded professional.
This study reveals a high-percentage of pharmacy students who were using or had previously used at least one type of CAM. Students of higher professional years tend to agree that CMs include ideas and methods from which conventional medicine could benefit.
近年来，本科医学生对补充医学的基本理解、看法和使用情况已成为关注的焦点。本研究旨在调查马来西亚药学专业学生对补充医学的理解、看法和自我使用情况。
本横断面研究对来自两所私立大学和一所公立大学的 500 名系统抽样药学专业学生进行了调查。使用经过验证的、自我管理的问卷，共分为七个部分收集数据。采用系统抽样法招募学生。使用 SPSS®版本 18 进行描述性和推断性统计分析。
总体而言，学生们倾向于不同意补充疗法（CM）对公众健康构成威胁（平均得分为 3.6），并认为补充疗法包括传统医学可以受益的理念和方法（平均得分为 4.7）。超过一半（57.8%）的参与者正在使用 CAM，而 77.6%的参与者之前曾使用过。在所使用的当前 CAM 方式中，CM（21.9%）是学生最常使用的 CAM，其次是传统中医（TCM）（21%）。大多数学生（74.8%）认为缺乏科学证据是阻止他们使用 CAM 的最重要障碍之一。超过一半的学生认为 TCM（62.8%）和音乐疗法（53.8%）有效。他们中的大多数（69.3%）认为 CAM 知识是成为全面专业人士的必要条件。
本研究揭示了相当高比例的药学专业学生正在使用或以前至少使用过一种 CAM。专业水平较高的学生更倾向于认为补充疗法中包含传统医学可以受益的理念和方法。
