Table 6: beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine of healthcare providers
Statement	Mean	Standard deviation
Physical and mental health are maintained by an underlying energy or vital force	4.7	1.9
Health and diseases are a reflection of balance between positive life-enhancing forces and negative destructive forces	5.0	1.8
The body is essentially self-healing and the task of a healthcare provider is to assist in the healing process	5.3	1.7
A patient’s symptoms should be regarded as a manifestation of a general imbalance of dysfunction affecting the whole body	5.3	1.6
A patient’s expectations, health belief and values should be integrated into the patient’s care process	5.7	1.5
Complementary therapies are a threat to public health	4.1	1.9
Treatment not tested in a scientifically recognized manner should be discouraged	5.1	1.9
Effects of complementary therapies are usually the result of a placebo effect	4.5	1.6
Complementary therapies include ideas and methods from which conventional medicine could benefit	4.9	1.6
Most complementary therapies stimulate the body’s natural therapeutic powers	4.5	1.6
Total score	49.4	9.5
All items used a 7-point scale with 1=“Absolutely Disagree” and 7=“Absolutely Agree” Respondents to all CHBQ items were scored so that a higher response indicated greater endorsement and more positive attitude. CHBQ total scores were computed by summing across the 10 rating items. The maximum possible score of total number of responses to the 10 questions was 70 with a hypothetical midpoint of 35 (denoting neutral attitude). The computation result in this study was 49±9.5 as mean score.