Ozer Ozlem, Santaş Fatih, Yıldırım Hasan Hüseyin
Department of Health Care Management, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. 2012 Oct 1;10(1):134-41. eCollection 2012.
The aim was to determine the knowledge, attitude and behavioral levels of people at and above 65 years of age, living in Ankara (Turkey) about alternative medicine. The study was carried out between March - April 2010 through survey application of 200 participants by selective random sampling from the population. Data obtained as a result of the survey were analyzed by SPSS program. The study revealed that 83.5% of the participants believed in alternative therapy methods but 16.5% of them did not. It is concluded that herbal therapy methods are the most frequently used methods with a 63% rate among other alternative therapy methods. When status of the participants was analyzed it was found that it was found that 69% received the information about alternative medicines from their family while 53.5% received it from television This study revealed that alternative medicine is profoundly used by people above 65 years of age in Ankara.
目的是确定居住在安卡拉（土耳其）的65岁及以上人群对替代医学的知识、态度和行为水平。该研究于2010年3月至4月期间进行，通过从人群中选择性随机抽样对200名参与者进行调查。调查结果获得的数据通过SPSS程序进行分析。研究表明，83.5%的参与者相信替代疗法，但其中16.5%的人不相信。结论是，在其他替代疗法中，草药疗法的使用频率最高，占63%。在分析参与者的情况时发现，69%的人从家人那里获得了有关替代药物的信息，而53.5%的人从电视上获得了相关信息。这项研究表明，安卡拉65岁以上的人群广泛使用替代医学。
