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| Title |
How do medical students engaging in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from unselected students? A survey
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| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12906-017-1653-z |
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| Authors |
Alexandra Jocham, Levente Kriston, Pascal O. Berberat, Antonius Schneider, Klaus Linde |
| Abstract |
We aimed to investigate whether students at German medical schools participating in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from an unselected group of students regarding attitudes and personality traits. Elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy in the academic half-year 2013/14 all over Germany were identified and participants invited to fill in a questionnaire including nineteen questions on attitudes towards Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), orientation towards science, care and status orientation, and a short validated instrument (Big-Five-Inventory-10) to measure personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness). Participants of a mandatory family medicine course at one university served as unselected control group. Two hundred twenty and 113 students from elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy, respectively, and 315 control students participated (response rate 93%). Students participating in elective courses had much more positive attitudes towards CAM, somewhat lower science and status orientation, and somewhat higher care orientation than control group students (all p-values for three-group comparisons < 0.001). There were no differences between the three groups regarding personality traits with the exception of lower values for agreeableness in controls (p = 0.009). The findings of this study show that attitudes of students participating in elective courses on acupuncture or homeopathy at German medical schools differ to a considerable degree from the attitudes of unselected students. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 43 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 41 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 12% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 8 | 19% |
| Unknown | 15 | 35% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 33% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 7% |
| Psychology | 2 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 17 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 July 2018.
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#5,439,930
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#895
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#87,241
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#30
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,638 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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