Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Finish study finds many physicians skeptical about complementary therapies

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 13th, 2004

Researchers survey physicians about their attitudes regarding complementary medicine use among cancer patients.

"This study describes physicians' attitudes toward the use of complementary therapies (CTs) by cancer patients in Finland. Responses to 33 Likert-type statements were received from 234 physicians; the response rate was 50.6%," scientists writing in the European Journal of Cancer Care report.

"The questionnaire items were analyzed separately and using five sum variables. Data analysis was based on descriptive statistics, chi-square and t-tests and analysis of variance. Attitudes among physicians and oncologists in particular were...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-01-13)

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