Attitudes of medical and nonmedical students toward orthodox and complementary therapies: Is scientific evidence taken into account?

Medical and nonmedical students completed a questionnaire indicating how wi lling they would be to try various therapies for treatment. Both groups ass essed more traditional complementary practices such as homeopathy and acupu ncture as similar to more orthodox treatments such as physiotherapy or pres cribed diets. Both groups appeared not to differentiate between established techniques (physiotherapy) and less tested techniques (yoga). Furthermore, neither group seemed particularly concerned about the scientific evaluatio ns of treatments.