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Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of foreign students toward the use of medical cannabis (MC) for pain management. Methods: This study uses data collected from 549 foreign students from India (n = 289) and Middle Eastern countries mostly from Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Jordan (...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7926830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33671711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042137 |
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author | Konstantinov, Vsevolod Reznik, Alexander Zangeneh, Masood Gritsenko, Valentina Khamenka, Natallia Kalita, Vitaly Isralowitz, Richard |
author_facet | Konstantinov, Vsevolod Reznik, Alexander Zangeneh, Masood Gritsenko, Valentina Khamenka, Natallia Kalita, Vitaly Isralowitz, Richard |
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description | Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of foreign students toward the use of medical cannabis (MC) for pain management. Methods: This study uses data collected from 549 foreign students from India (n = 289) and Middle Eastern countries mostly from Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Jordan (n = 260) studying medicine in Russia and Belarus. Data collected from Russian and Belarusian origin medical students (n = 796) were used for comparison purposes. Pearson’s chi-squared and t-test were used to analyze the data. Results: Foreign students’ country of origin and gender statuses do not tend to be correlated with medical student responses toward medical cannabis use. Students from Russia and Belarus who identified as secular, compared to those who were religious, reported more positive attitudes toward medical cannabis and policy change. Conclusions: This study is the first to examine the attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs toward medical cannabis among foreign students from India and Middle Eastern countries studying in Russia and Belarus, two countries who oppose its recreational and medicine use. Indian and Middle Eastern students, as a group, tend to be more supportive of MC than their Russian and Belarusian counterparts. These results may be linked to cultural and historical reasons. This study provides useful information for possible medical and allied health curriculum and education purposes. |
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spelling | pubmed-79268302021-03-04 Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management Konstantinov, Vsevolod Reznik, Alexander Zangeneh, Masood Gritsenko, Valentina Khamenka, Natallia Kalita, Vitaly Isralowitz, Richard Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of foreign students toward the use of medical cannabis (MC) for pain management. Methods: This study uses data collected from 549 foreign students from India (n = 289) and Middle Eastern countries mostly from Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Jordan (n = 260) studying medicine in Russia and Belarus. Data collected from Russian and Belarusian origin medical students (n = 796) were used for comparison purposes. Pearson’s chi-squared and t-test were used to analyze the data. Results: Foreign students’ country of origin and gender statuses do not tend to be correlated with medical student responses toward medical cannabis use. Students from Russia and Belarus who identified as secular, compared to those who were religious, reported more positive attitudes toward medical cannabis and policy change. Conclusions: This study is the first to examine the attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs toward medical cannabis among foreign students from India and Middle Eastern countries studying in Russia and Belarus, two countries who oppose its recreational and medicine use. Indian and Middle Eastern students, as a group, tend to be more supportive of MC than their Russian and Belarusian counterparts. These results may be linked to cultural and historical reasons. This study provides useful information for possible medical and allied health curriculum and education purposes. MDPI 2021-02-22 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7926830/ /pubmed/33671711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042137 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Konstantinov, Vsevolod Reznik, Alexander Zangeneh, Masood Gritsenko, Valentina Khamenka, Natallia Kalita, Vitaly Isralowitz, Richard Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management |
title | Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management |
title_full | Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management |
title_fullStr | Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management |
title_full_unstemmed | Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management |
title_short | Foreign Medical Students in Eastern Europe: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis for Pain Management |
title_sort | foreign medical students in eastern europe: knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about medical cannabis for pain management |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7926830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33671711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042137 |
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