Arslan Gulsah Gurol, Denat Yildiz, Dikmen Yurdanur
Faculty of Nursing, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
Aydin School of Health, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2017 Sep;67(9):1420-1427.
This descriptive literature review was planned to identify the prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) usage, frequency of usage, types/fields of use in master's theses and PhD dissertations based on the CAM methods, which are commonly used in nursing practice in Turkey. Data was collected in Turkey from February to March 2014 through a review of the National Thesis Centre (NTC) Archives at the Chairmanship of the Council of Higher Education and by obtaining the nursing theses/dissertations on CAM done between 1996 and 2013. Data were analysed by distribution of frequencies and percentages for publication year, number in sampling, method, case group, CAM type, and purpose of use/effectiveness. A total of 88 theses/dissertations were located. It was found that a majority of the theses/dissertations investigated were interventional. Investigation of the purpose of CAM use in theses/dissertations showed that the studies examined the effects of CAM on symptom control.
本描述性文献综述旨在确定基于土耳其护理实践中常用的补充与替代医学（CAM）方法，硕士论文和博士学位论文中CAM的使用 prevalence、使用频率、使用类型/领域。2014年2月至3月在土耳其，通过查阅高等教育委员会主席办公室的国家论文中心（NTC）档案，并获取1996年至2013年间完成的关于CAM的护理论文/学位论文来收集数据。通过对出版年份、抽样数量、方法、病例组、CAM类型以及使用目的/有效性的频率和百分比分布来分析数据。共找到88篇论文/学位论文。结果发现，所调查的大多数论文/学位论文都是干预性的。对论文/学位论文中CAM使用目的的调查表明，这些研究考察了CAM对症状控制的影响。
