Both medical and non-medical students were questioned on how they perceive orthodox and complementary therapies and asked about their attitudes towards trying new therapies.

The results of the study found the students rated the more traditional complementary practices such as homeopathy and acupuncture on a par with more conventional treatments such as physiotherapy or prescribed diets. There was no noticeable differentiation between the students' views of established orthodox treatments (e.g. physiotherapy) and techniques such as yoga.

The students were also not particularly concerned about the scientific evaluation of the different treatments (or lack thereof) which is thought to be due to the appreciation that conventional research parametres cannot always be applied to holistic forms of healing and that organisations within the alternative and complementary medical field often tend to work on a voluntary basis or with low budgets which simply don't provide for the funding of research.