Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among Australian hospital-based nurses: knowledge, attitude, personal and professional use, reasons for use, CAM referrals, and socio-demographic predictors of CAM users

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

Volumn 27, Issue , 2017, Pages 37-45

  Shorofi, Seyed Afshin ^a,b   Arbon, Paul ^b  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude; CAM referral; CAM therapies; Knowledge; Nurse; Socio demographic predictors

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANAMNESIS; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASSAGE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING PRACTICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL WARD; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017156417     PISSN: 17443881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2017.03.001     Document Type: Article

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