Investigation of Attitudes Towards Complementary Alternative Medicine in Young Adulthood

Author:

Yazar Merve1ORCID,Bayır Berna2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. KTO KARATAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ

2. KTO KARATAY UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of individuals aged 18-24 towards complementary alternative medicine. Material-Method: The sample of the cross-sectional study, which is one of the analytical research types, consisted of 178 individuals between the ages of 18-24, at least primary education level, having technological devices and able to use internet networks. Descriptive statistics, independent groups t test, ANOVA, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, Tukey tests and regression analysis were used in the evaluation of the data. The significance level was taken as 0.05 in the interpretation of the results. Results: In the study, it was found that those who had a large family type, who thought that complementary or alternative medicine practices were beneficial, who recommended these practices to their close environment or friends, and who found complementary medicine practices more beneficial than the treatments applied in health institutions positively affected the scale mean scores (p

Funder

Author Note: Our research was presented as an oral presentation at the 4th International 7th National Intercultural Nursing Congress.

Publisher

Duzce University

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