Original Article
Changes in Attitudes of Japanese Doctors toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine—Comparison of Surveys in 1999 and 2005 in Kyoto
Table 2
Changes in the reasons for the beliefs and disbelief of the doctors concerning the effectiveness of CAM therapies between 1999 and 2005.
| | 2005 | 1999 | P-value |
| | Reasons for the belief | | | | | (1) Improvement of patients during treatment with CAM | 176 (56%) | 147 (56%) | NS | | (2) Experience of the improvement by | 91 (29%) | 65 (25%) | NS | | themselves | | (3) Existence of reliable references, presentation | 146 (46%) | 104 (40%) |
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| | in academic meetings, information about | | goods associated with | | CAM and so on | | (4) Recommendation by reliable persons | 16 (5%) | 9 (3%) | NS | | (5) Others | 61 (19%) | 41 (16%) | NS | | Respondents | 315 (100%) | 261 (100%) | | | No answer | 90 | 103 | |
| | Total | 405 | 364 | |
| | Reasons for the disbelief | | | | | (1) No reliable information | 154 (69%) | 111 (59%) |
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| | (2) Unreliable data and | 80 (36%) | 46 (25%) |
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| | conclusion in references | | (3) No reliable evidence | 165 (74%) | 94 (50%) |
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| | (4) No experience of cases in which CAM was effective | 30 (14%) | 29 (56%) | NS | | (5) Experience of | 76 (34%) | 55 (29%) | NS | | aggravation, delay in | | treating, side effects in | | patients treated with | | CAM | | | | | (6) No experience of the improvement by | 13 (6%) | 12 (6%) | NS | | themselves | | (7) Others | 33 (15%) | 19 (22%) | NS | | Respondents | 222 (100%) | 187 (100%) | | | No answer | 183 | 177 | |
| | Total | 405 | 364 | |
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By -test; *.
NS, not significant.
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