Objective : This research was carried out to find out the general understanding of korean medicine and the attitude toward medical gigong among common people.
Methods : Randomly selected 297 people participated in this research. We performed this sur...
Objective : This research was carried out to find out the general understanding of korean medicine and the attitude toward medical gigong among common people.
Methods : Randomly selected 297 people participated in this research. We performed this survey with 13 items on the Questionnaire
Results : 13.1% of respondents knew qigong training, and 7.1% of respondents knew medical qigong. Most respondents knew one or more terms of qigong. Among them, the order was known as meridian, danjeon, sojucheon. 57.6% of respondents had a mind to be in a treatment of medical qigong. And 45.7% of respondents were satisfied with the harmless of medical gigong. However, 41% were unsatisfied with the low effect of the treatment.
Conclusions : Medical gigong treatment need to develop an explanatory model which based on static study. And technically advanced public relations are needed.