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How do medical students engaging in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from unselected students? A survey. / Jocham, Alexandra; Kriston, Levente; Berberat, Pascal O; Schneider, Antonius; Linde, Klaus.

in: BMC COMPLEM ALTERN M, Jahrgang 17, Nr. 1, 09.03.2017, S. 148.

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Jocham, A, Kriston, L, Berberat, PO, Schneider, A & Linde, K 2017, 'How do medical students engaging in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from unselected students? A survey', BMC COMPLEM ALTERN M, Jg. 17, Nr. 1, S. 148. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-1653-z

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Jocham, A., Kriston, L., Berberat, P. O., Schneider, A., & Linde, K. (2017). How do medical students engaging in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from unselected students? A survey. BMC COMPLEM ALTERN M, 17(1), 148. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-1653-z

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Jocham A, Kriston L, Berberat PO, Schneider A, Linde K. How do medical students engaging in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from unselected students? A survey. BMC COMPLEM ALTERN M. 2017 Mär 9;17(1):148. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-1653-z

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title = "How do medical students engaging in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from unselected students?: A survey",
abstract = "BACKGROUND: 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.METHODS: 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.RESULTS: 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).CONCLUSIONS: 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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N2 - BACKGROUND: 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.METHODS: 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.RESULTS: 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).CONCLUSIONS: 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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