Health students knowledge about integrative and complementary practices
International Journal of Development Research
Health students knowledge about integrative and complementary practices
Received 17th April, 2020 ; Received in revised form 24th May, 2020; Accepted 11th June, 2020; Published online 30th July, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Marinilde Rodrigues Santos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Integrative and Complementary Practices have gained space in public health policies and interest in them have increased. Health professors must train professionals to develop a more critical thinking, focused on integral health. This study aimed to describe about the knowledge of physiotherapy students about integrative and complementary health practices. This is a descriptive, experimental, transverse and quantitative study. The data were quantified and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results show that although most students reported knowing some Integrative and Complementary Practices (88%), few know the National Policy of Integrative and Complementary Practices (46%), however the vast majority (90%) would indicate the treatment of some of these practices to any client, friend or family member for believing in their therapeutic effects. Acupuncture was the best-known practice among students (74%) and the technique most used by them was auriculotherapy (58%). It is suggested that higher education institutions include this theme in their curricular components and knowledge about health care must become more holistic and humanized.
