Table 13.
General Attitude of Nursing and Medical Students Regarding Support for Use of Placebo
| Variable | Profession | Total N (%) |
χ2 | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing | Medical | |||||
| Support placebo use versus no treatment | Yes | 63 (34.2) | 46 (25.0) | 109 (59.2) | 6.505 | 0.011 |
| No | 29 (15.8) | 46 (25.0) | 75 (40.8) | |||
| Placebos benefit certain medical conditions more | Yes | 60 (32.1) | 57 (30.5) | 117 (62.6) | 0.029 | 0.865 |
| No | 35 (18.7) | 35 (18.7) | 70 (37.4) | |||
| Placebos have greater benefit for people with certain personality characteristics | Yes | 70 (37.6) | 73 (39.2) | 143 (76.9) | 1.117 | 0.291 |
| No | 25 (13.4) | 18 (9.7) | 43 (23.1) | |||