Attitudes, awareness and self-use of complementary therapies among Spanish health sciences, journalism, and primary teacher training students

In Spain, there has been an intense debate between advocates of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and a skeptical movement during the last decade. Neither are these therapies integrated into the public health system, nor have practitioner training courses been regulated. Notwithstanding this, their use is on the increase in Spain, as can be seen in the last public opinion survey (CIS, 2018). Thus, this work aims to explore the attitudes towards and awareness and self-use of CAM among health sciences, journalism, and primary teacher training students. These students were chosen since they will play a fundamental role as storytellers of evidence-based science for the foreseeable fu…