This study aims to seek for the Correlation between Psychological Wellbeing and
Recognition & Experience of Alternative Therapy among College Students. For 5
days, from December 3 2013 to December 7, I conducts a survey of 112 college
students in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. The results of this study can be
summarized as follows.
1) This is the general characteristics of the respondents. The gender was 70.5% of
female and 29.5% of male in order. Regarding the research item of the awareness
rate of the alternative therapy, 60.7% of the students are 'medium aware' of it,
25.0% are ' a little ignorant', 14.3% are 'well aware' of it. The major channel that
they have knowledge about it is 'mass media such as newspaper, TV' among 58.9%
of the students.
2) Views on alternative therapy appeared in the order of 'secondary treatment' of
modern medicine 33.9%, 'psychological support and health promotion' 32.1%,
'symptom relief' 15.2%, 'independent treatment' 10.7% and 'new treatment for the
limits of modern medicine' 8.0%.
3) The biggest advantage of alternative therapy were shown in the order of
'treatment effect' 49.1%, 'treatment method' 23.2%, 'treatment cost' 22.3% and
'treatment duration' 5.4% and when it comes to the unpopularity, 'lack of scientific
evidence and insufficient therapeutic effect' 69.6%, 'not a legitimate medical practice'
17.9% and 'lack of legal ground for medical malpractice' 12.5%.
4) Psychological quality of life, quality of life regarding the health, alternative
therapy experience, alternative therapy effect, age, recognition of alternative therapy,
information acquisition path on alternative therapy and religion were all proportional to
psychological wellbeing.
In this research, we have verified the impact and correlation between psychological
wellbeing and recognition & experience of alternative therapy among college students
and the results are as follows.
First, information on alternative therapy should be strictly controlled and regulated
in order to transfer the accurate knowledge as the younger people are getting the
more online information and the more aged people are getting the more information
thru mass media thus college students should avoid the indiscreet information as
well.
Second, the alternative therapy should be controlled within the public system by
securing the institutional and legal basis in order to contribute to the public health
care as many college students consider that alternative therapy was not popularized
due to the lack of scientific evidence and insufficient therapeutic effect.
Third, the systematic knowledge of alternative therapy should be promoted across
the nation in order to increase the level of quality of life and psychological wellbeing
by assisting the people's health.