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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF INTERNISTS COMPARED TO MEDICAL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO ACUPUNCTURE

KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF INTERNISTS COMPARED TO MEDICAL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO ACUPUNCTURE. Zohar Shani, Tami Freud,Yan Press and Roni Peleg Ben-Gurion University. Background.

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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF INTERNISTS COMPARED TO MEDICAL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO ACUPUNCTURE

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  1. KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF INTERNISTS COMPARED TO MEDICAL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO ACUPUNCTURE Zohar Shani, Tami Freud,Yan Press and Roni Peleg Ben-Gurion University

  2. Background • Public interest and use of acupuncture have both been on the rise over recent years in Israel and throughout the Western world.

  3. Objectives • To compare the knowledge and attitudes of physicians to medical students in relation to acupuncture.

  4. Methods • Anonymous questionnaires were answered by internists and medical students in the Soroka Medical Center.

  5. Results

  6. Knowledge on acupuncture • Forty nine participants (40%) did not answer a single question of the eight knowledge questions correctly. • No participant answered all 8 questions correctly.

  7. Attitudes towards acupuncture: comparison between men and women • Women (22.8%) agreed less than men (46.9%) that acupuncture is effective as monotherapy for medical problems (P=0.006). • This was also a significant difference between women (98.2%) and men (88.9%) on the question of whether acupuncture could represent a threat to public health (P=0.04). • There were no other significant differences between men and women on any of the attitude questions.

  8. Conclusions • The level of knowledge and exposure of physicians and medical students to acupuncture is low. • However, both groups have relatively positive attitudes to acupuncture as an acceptable treatment modality for health problems, and both groups were open to the inclusion of acupuncture in the medical school curriculum.

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