QUIROPRÁCTICA, ACUPUNTURA, NATUROPATÍA: APROBACIÓN CONCEPTUAL ENTRE ESTUDIANTES DE MEDICINA Y PROFESORES MÉDICOS. UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ. SEPTIEMBRE 2006.

Diego Lim; Gabriela McKay; Alexis McKenzie; Roberto Salas; Carlos  Villalaz-Diaz; Yesenia Williams

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2007): Revista Médico Científica

CHIROPRACTIC, ACUPUNCTURE, NATUROPATHY : CONCEPTUAL APPROVAL AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS AND THEIR MEDICAL PROFESSORS. UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA. SEPTEMBER 2006.

Diego Lim⁺⁻
Gabriela McKay⁺⁻
Alexis McKenzie⁺⁻
Roberto Salas⁺⁻
Carlos Villalaz-Diaz⁺⁻
Yesenia Williams⁺⁻

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Official governmental recognition is given to the use of a/ternative or comp/ementary medicine; of them, chiropractics, acupuncture and naturopathyare three of the moda/ities most wide/y recognized. The concept of them has evo/ved in a way that its approva/ might have changed between generations. A questionnaire was app/ied to two universes, one to a group ofmedica/ students and another to their medica/ professors. To assess the conceptua/approva/ ofeachmoda/ity, ana/gorithm was designed based on the score that depended on the answers given in the questionnaire. Of the group of students (N=63), 88.9% knew about chiropractics, 100% about acupuncture and 95.4% about naturopathy. Of them who knew about the specified moda/ity, 94.6%, 95.3% and 91.3% had a degree of approva/ greater than 1 respective/y. Among the group of medica/professors (N=9), 88.9% knew about chiropractics, 100% about acupuncture and naturopathy. Of them, 97.5%, 100% and 88.9% had a degree of approva/ greater than 1 respective/y. In general, the pattern of a greater know/edge and approva/ of acupuncture compared to chiropractics and naturopathy is consistent with the revised literature and our study.

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[1] Jarvis, D.C. *Folk Medicine*. New York: Fawcett Books, 1981.

[2] Eisenberg, D.M., Davis, R.B., Eltner, S.L., Appel, S., Wilkey, S., Van Rompay, M., Kessler, R.C. Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997: results of a follow-up national survey. *JAMA*. 1998;280(18):1569-1575.

[3] Tindle, H.A., Davis, R.B., Phillips, R.S., Eisenberg, D.M. Trends in use of complementary and alternative medicine by US adults: 1997-2002. *Altern Ther Health Med*. 2005;11:42-49.

[4] Speroni, M., Silberman, P., López, S., Ruggero, S., Polla, S., Bugalti, F., Arribas, A., Principe, N., Urriaga, G. Uso de medicinas alternativas en pacientes adultos del Seguro Municipal de Salud de Bahía Blanca. *Archivos de Medicina Familiar y General*. 2004;1(1):24-28.

[5] Reoyo Jiménez, A., Muñoz Garcia, G., Murria Hurtado, M., Nogales Escoriza, R.M., Ortega Vázquez, I. Utilización de medicinas alternativas en la Comunidad de Madrid. *Medicina General*. 2006;82:82-87.

[6] OPS. Informe del taller de medicinas y terapias tradicionales, complementarias y alternativas en las Américas: políticas, planes y programas. Disponible en: http://www.paho.org/Spanish/ADITHS/OS/42-INDI-span.doc

[7] Molino Mola, E. *La Jurisdicción Constitucional en Panamá*. Panamá: Universal Books, 2006.

[8] WHO. *Legal Status of Traditional Medicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Worldwide Review 2001*. Disponible en: http://whqlibdoc.who.intlhq/2001/WHO_EDM_TRM_2001.2.pdf

[9] Eisenberg, D.M., Cohen, M.H., Hrbek, A., Grayzel, J., Van Rompay, M.I., Cooper, R.A. Credentialing complementary and alternative medical providers. *Ann Intern Med*. 2002;137(12):965-973.

[10] National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH. What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)? Disponible en: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/

[11] National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH. Chiropractic and Its Use in Treating Low-Back Pain. Disponible en: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/chiropractic/

[12] Dorfer, L., Moser, M., Bahr, F., Spindler, K., Egarter-Vigl, E., Giullen, S., Dohr, G., Kenner, I. A medical report from the stone age? *Lancet*. 1999;354(9183):1023-1025.

[13] National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH. Acupuncture. Disponible en: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/

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