The relationship between health sciences students' perceptions of health news and their attitudes to using complementary and alternative medicine.

Purpose: Written-visual and social media play a significant role in accessing knowledge about health issues. Media coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can affect the beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and decisions to use of CAM the individuals. The research was planned as a descriptive, cross-sectional study was to evaluate the relationship between the health sciences students' perceptions of health news and their attitude towards using CAM.