Complementary and alternative medicine: attitudes, knowledge and use among surgeons and anaesthesiologists in Hungary

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Sándor Árpád Soós¹  László Harsányi¹  Katalin Darvas²  Norbert Jeszenői³ 

[1] 1st Department of Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary;1st Department of Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary;Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary;MTA NAP-B Molecular Neuroendocrinology Group, Institute of Physiology, Szentágothai Research Centre, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary;Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary;

关键词: Anaesthesiologist;    Surgeon;    CAM;    Perioperative care;    Integrative medicine;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12906-016-1426-0

 received in 2015-11-27, accepted in 2016-11-01,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundDespite their worldwide popularity the question of using non-conventional treatments is a source of controversy among medical professionals. Although these methods may have potential benefits it presents a problem when patients use non-conventional treatments in the perioperative period without informing their attending physician about it and this may cause adverse events and complications. To prevent this, physicians need to have a profound knowledge about non-conventional treatments.MethodsAn anonymous questionnaire was distributed among surgeons and anaesthesiologists working in Hungarian university clinics and in selected city or county hospitals. Questionnaires were distributed by post, online or in person. Altogether 258 questionnaires were received from 22 clinical and hospital departments.ResultsAnaesthesiologists and surgeons use reflexology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbal medicine and manual therapy most frequently in their clinical practice. Traditional Chinese Medicine was considered to be the most scientifically sound method, while homeopathy was perceived as the least well-grounded method. Neural therapy was the least well-known method among our subjects.Among the subjects of our survey only 3.1 % of perioperative care physicians had some qualifications in non-conventional medicine, 12.4 % considered themselves to be well-informed in this topic and 48.4 % would like to study some complementary method. Women were significantly more interested in alternative treatments than men, p = 0.001427; OR: 2.2765. Anaesthesiologists would be significantly more willing to learn non-conventional methods than surgeons. 86.4 % of the participants thought that non-conventional treatments should be evaluated from the point of view of evidence. Both surgeons and anaesthesiologists accept the application of integrative medicine and they also approve of the idea of teaching these methods at universities.ConclusionsAccording to perioperative care physicians, non-conventional methods should be evaluated based on evidence. They also expressed a willingness to learn about those treatments that meet the criteria of evidence and apply these in their clinical practice.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2016