This study was intended to explore the perception level of geriatrics hospital employees on complementary and alternative therapy and investigate relevant factors. To achieve the purpose, a structured self-administrated questionnaire survey was conducted on 227 employees working at four geriatrics hospitals located in DaeJeon city. Data had been collected from Aug. 1 to Aug. 31, 2015. As for study contents, the study subjects'' general characteristics and their attitude and practice level to alternative therapy were set as independent variables, and the perception level on alternative therapy as a dependent variable to perform ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. The main results of the study are presented as follows.

1. Regarding the study subjects'' perception level on alternative therapy by their general characteristics, there was significant difference according to the job type and religion/non-religion type. In other words, according to the job type, care-givers group had the highest level, and the next ones were nursing care workers group, nurses group, and office workers group in order. And there was significant difference among the groups (p=0.01). Regarding whether or not a study subject believes in a religion, the group saying that they don''t believe in a religion had a significant higher level than the group saying that they believe in a religion (p=0.04).

2. Regarding the study subjects'' perception level on alternative therapy according to their attitude and practice level to alternative therapy, the group saying that they experienced the education about alternative therapy has a significant higher level than the group saying that they haven''t experienced the education about the therapy (p=0.00), and the group saying that the education about the therapy is necessary had a significant higher level than the group saying that the education about the therapy is unnecessary (p=0.00). Regarding the causes for why the education about alternative therapy is necessary, the cause of total care showed a significant higher value than other causes(p=0.00). and the group saying that they experienced alternative therapy had a significant higher value than the group saying that they haven''t experienced the therapy(p=0.00). In addition, regarding the use of alternative therapy, the group saying that they were satisfied with the therapy had a significant higher level than the group saying that they were not satisfied with the therapy (p=0.00).

3. The results of multiple regression analysis presented that, regarding relevant factors influencing the perception level on alternative therapy, job type, religion/non-religion, whether or not alternative therapy was experienced, whether or not the education about the therapy is necessary, the causes for why the education about the therapy is necessary, and the satisfaction with alternative therapy were selected as significant variables whose explanatory power was 37.9%.

As shown in the results, it was found that the geriatrics hospitals employees'' perception level on alternative therapy had a higher relations with the variables of their attitude and practice level to alternative therapy than with the variable of their general characteristics.

Key words: Geriatrics Hospital Employees, Perception Level, Alternative Medicine