Students' Beliefs about Willingness to Access Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CAT) Training for Future Integration into Psychology Practice

Table 1

Mean differences in behavioral, normative, and control beliefs for students’ willingness to access CAT training for future integration into their psychology practice.

Willingness	Low^b willingness	High^b willingness
Behavioural beliefs^a	𝑛=29	𝑛=75
Being able to offer a more holistic approach to therapy	4.38	5.52^***
Clients feeling pressured to experience CAT	3.90	3.37
Being able to avoid the use of medications where they are unnecessary or unwanted by the client	4.38	5.25^***
Compromising my professional reputation	3.97	3.31
^∗∗∗𝑃<.012^a
Normative beliefs	𝑛=30	𝑛=76
Your clients	4.13	4.89^***
Complementary or alternative practitioners	4.87	5.64^***
Professional organisations	3.47	4.07
^∗∗∗𝑃<.016^a
Control beliefs	𝑛=30	𝑛=76
Lack of knowledge about relevant CAT	4.97	5.45
Lack of scientific evidence in support of CAT	5.33	4.88
Absence of clear legal/professional bodies guidelines	5.20	4.93
^∗∗∗𝑃<.016^a

^aBonferroni adjustments used to control for familywise type 1 error.
^bLow and high willingness groups were created based on a split at the scale midpoint. The different ratios of 𝑛 values between the intention groups across the three TPB belief-based categories reflect the presence of missing data.