TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Study on Attitude and Perception of Medical Students Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Tertiary Care Centre: A Cross Sectional Study
AU - Priya, G. AU - Ashok, Vishnu AU - Jayasree, C.S. 
JO  - Research Journal of Medical Sciences
VL  - 18
IS  - 12
SP  - 865
EP  - 869
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-9346
DO  - makrjms.2024.12.865.869
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=makrjms.2024.12.865.869
KW  - Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
KW  - better counselling
KW  - alternative and complimentary medicines
AB  - Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been gaining
popularity among the public worldwide. The ignorance about CAM use by
medical practitioner may create a communication gap with patients.
Many problems have reported such as adverse effects and drug‐herbs
interaction regarding CAM use along with conventional medicine. This
emphasises the need for healthcare professionals to acquired deep
knowledge regarding CAM to provide better counselling to patients. To
assess the attitude and perception of medical students towards
alternative and complimentary medicines. A cross sectional study was
conducted among 172 undergraduate medical students in Sree
Mookambika institute of medical sciences, Kanyakumari. Informed
consent was obtained from each volunteer prior to the study. Data was
collected using pre‐tested questionnaire for a period of 3 months and
that were entered in MS Excel and analysed using SPSS. A total of 172
medical students participated in the study., among them, 57% were male
and 43% female. Majority of participants uses CAM for their health and
well being (96.5%) in which yoga was the most used CAM (94.8%). Further
the students believe that clinical care should integrate the best of
conventional and CAM use (93%). Majority (96.5%) thinks that knowledge
about CAM would be useful for them as future doctors and wishes CAM
to be offered as an elective course in our college. The study showed that
most medical students have positive attitudes and perceptions towards
CAM use with majority agreed knowledge of CAM is useful as a future
healthcare professional. In general, medical students agreed CAM can be
added in their education as electives.
ER  -