Attitudes toward Integrative Medicine among Public Health Graduate Students

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1 Attitudes toward Integrative Medicine among Public Health Graduate Students Katie Pincura, MA Department of Health Sciences, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA Adviser: Dr. Leigh Rich

2 What is Integrative Medicine? Complementary and Alternative Medicine + Orthodox Medicine = Integrative Medicine Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) may refer to: Chiropractic treatment Massage therapy Herbal therapy Acupuncture

3 Integrative Services are in Demand CAM utilization in the United States began to surge in the mid- 1990s (Eisenberg et al., 1998) Physician acceptance of various CAM modalities roughly matched those of the public by 1995 (Astin, Marie, Pelletier, Hansen, & Haskell, 1998) Healthcare trend emerged focused on combining orthodox, biomedical medicine with CAM approaches (Rogier Hoenders, Appelo, & de Jong, 2012) Demand for these integrative medical services has remained stable in the United States since 2000 (Harris, Cooper, Relton, & Thomas, 2012)

4 Public Health Voices: The Missing Piece In the past decade, research of IM therapies has continued to proliferate (Frass et al., 2012) Acceptance by the medical community What about public health professionals? Scant evidence of the formalized assimilation of IM principles into high-visibility American public health promotions (Burke, Ginzburg, Collie, Trachtenberg, & Muhammad, 2005)

5 Public Health & Integrative Medicine Barrier: lack of IM-related research devoted specifically to public health applications (Sibbritt & Adams, 2011) 2009 meta-analysis: greatest gains in acceptance and awareness of IM are in biomedical curricula and in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing curricula The same report found no appreciable sample of data on the state of public health graduate programs in terms of integration of IM principles or awareness of IM on behalf of students or faculty (Kreitzer, Kligler, & Meeker, 2009)

6 Proposed Study: Survey of Public Health Graduate Students Sample of participating Georgia public health graduate program enrollees IMAQ = Integrative Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire Goal of survey is to assess participant attitudes toward IM

7 IMAQ Originally developed and validated by Schneider, Meek, & Bell (2003) Version used in proposed study was adapted from Rees, Wearn, Dennis, Amri, & Greenfield (2009). 29 statements and a Likert-type rating system Statements relate to attitudes/experiences with CAM, IM

8 Ongoing Research Results of IMAQ survey can provide basis for research specific to IM in public health that reflects current trends in healthcare reform Section 2706 of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 addresses the issue of consumer choice of healthcare professionals who are not medical doctors, a significant acknowledgement of the growing public and professional demand for IM services Section 2706 Non-Discrimination in Health Care: Harkin Amendment (a) PROVIDERS. A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall not discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider s license or certification under applicable State law. (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2010)

9 Questions/Comments

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