ITEMS | First year | 5. and 6. class | p |
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Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | ||
All practitioners of CAM should be medically qualified. | 5,51 ± 1,75 | 5,15 ± 1,98 | 0,024* |
On avarage, practitioners of CAM make less money than other doctors. | 3,12 ± 1,88 | 2,70 ± 1,89 | 0,000* |
CAM has low status within medicine | 4,14 ± 1,78 | 4,57 ± 1,85 | 0,001* |
CAM is only effective in treating minor complaints. | 3,91 ± 1,77 | 4,48 ± 1,94 | 0,000* |
CAM is fairly unscientific. | 3,09 ± 1,84 | 3,47 ± 2,05 | 0,014* |
CAM has advanced considerably in recent years in understanding of illness and diseases | 4,16 ± 1,65 | 3,52 ± 1,8 | 0,000* |
Practitioners of CAM are more prepared to listen to their patients. | 4,56 ± 1,73 | 4,21 ± 1,86 | 0,012* |
Patients on CAM hardly ever get better | 3,15 ± 1,57 | 3,84 ± 1,72 | 0,000* |
Despite considerable research, there are few aplicable results in CAM. | 3,85 ± 1,58 | 4,66 ± 1,80 | 0,000* |
CAM should be thught in medical school. | 4,66 ± 2,00 | 4,12 ± 2,13 | 0,000* |
Women have more tendency to CAM than men. | 5,93 ± 1,91 | 5,58 ± 1,70 | 0,000* |
Most practitioners of CAM receive a thorough training. | 3,03 ± 1,65 | 2,59 ± 1,63 | 0,000* |
CAM is safer than modern medical treatments | 2,76 ± 1,70 | 2,55 ± 1,72 | 0,027* |
You need to be “gifted” to carry out CAM | 2,38 ± 1,65 | 2,00 ± 1,51 | 0,000* |
A surprising number of patients claim its effective at curing their illness. | 4,44 ± 165 | 4,14 ± 1,88 | 0,027* |
CAM is more cost-effective than modern medicine | 3,47 ± 1,70 | 3,21 ± 1,79 | 0,020* |
Much of CAM is actually dangerous to the health of patients | 2,75 ± 1,58 | 3,14 ± 1,78 | 0,003* |
The reason for the success of CAM is mainly due to treating the whole person. | 3,73 ± 1,73 | 3,19 ± 1,72 | 0,000* |
A doctor should know CAM methods | 4,95 ± 1,73 | 4,13 ± 2,08 | 0,000* |
Knowledge of CAM is needed in my future professionalism | 4,67 ± 2,21 | 3,83 ± 2,08 | 0,000* |
I believe that to suggest CAM modalities to their patients is responsibility of doctors. | 4,20 ± 1,91 | 3,22 ± 2,04 | 0,000* |
I am personally interested in CAM | 4,16 ± 2,03 | 3,53 ± 2,14 | 0,000* |
CAM is an important part of my professionalism | 3,59 ± 1,95 | 2,80 ± 1,92 | 0,000* |
CAM is an important part of my culture | 3,52 ± 2,01 | 3,17 ± 1,95 | 0,013* |
I believe that CAM may have positive effect on general health outcomes | 4,25 ± 1,82 | 3,71 ± 1,84 | 0,000* |