Knowledge and attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine among medical students in Turkey

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Akan, Hulya ^a   Izbirak, Guldal ^a   Kaspar, Elif T ^a   Kaya, Çiǧdem A ^b   Aydin, Serpil ^c   Demircan, Nejat ^d   Bucaktepe, P G ^e   Özer, Cahit ^f   Sahin, Hüseyin A ^g   Hayran, Osman ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Zonguldak Karaelmas Universitesi Tip Fakultesi   (Turkey)

^e DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^f MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDITATION; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868699428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-115     Document Type: Article

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