Department of Family Medicine, University of Yuzuncu Yil, Van, Turkey.
BMC Complement Altern Med. 2010 Mar 22;10:11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-11.
Infertility patients are a vulnerable group that often seeks a non-medical solution for their failure to conceive. World-wide, women use CAM for productive health, but only a limited number of studies report on CAM use to enhance fertility. Little is known about traditional and religious forms of therapies that are used in relation to conventional medicine in Turkey. We investigated the prevalence and types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) used by infertile Turkish women for fertility enhancement.
A face-to-face questionnaire inquiring demographic information and types of CAM used for fertility enhancement were completed by hundred infertility patients admitted to a primary care family planning centre in Van, Turkey between January and July 2009.
The vast majority of infertile women had used CAM at least once for infertility. CAM use included religious interventions, herbal products and recommendations of traditional "hodja's" (faith healers). Of these women, 87.8% were abused in the last 12 months, 36.6% felt not being supported by her partner and 80.5% had never spoken with a physician about CAM.
Infertile Turkish women use complementary medicine frequently for fertility enhancement and are in need of information about CAM. Religious and traditional therapies are used as an adjunct to, rather than a substitute for, conventional medical therapy. Physicians need to approach fertility patients with sensitivity and should be able to council their patients about CAM accordingly.
不孕患者是一个弱势群体，他们常常寻求非医疗解决方案来应对不孕问题。在全球范围内，女性将 CAM 用于促进健康，但只有少数研究报告了使用 CAM 来提高生育能力。在土耳其，关于与传统医学相关的传统和宗教形式的疗法知之甚少。我们调查了土耳其不孕女性为提高生育能力而使用的补充和替代医学（CAM）的流行率和类型。
2009 年 1 月至 7 月，在土耳其凡省的一家初级保健计划生育中心，对 100 名不孕患者进行了面对面问卷调查，询问人口统计学信息和用于提高生育能力的 CAM 类型。
绝大多数不孕女性至少曾因不孕问题使用过一次 CAM。CAM 的使用包括宗教干预、草药产品和传统“hodja's”（信仰治疗师）的建议。在这些女性中，87.8%在过去 12 个月中受到虐待，36.6%感到没有得到伴侣的支持，80.5%从未就 CAM 与医生交谈过。
土耳其不孕女性经常使用补充医学来提高生育能力，并且需要有关 CAM 的信息。宗教和传统疗法被用作传统医学治疗的辅助手段，而不是替代手段。医生需要以敏感的态度对待生育患者，并能够相应地为患者提供 CAM 咨询。
