埃塞俄比亚贡德尔镇高血压患者补充和替代医学使用情况及其相关因素
Prevalence and Correlates of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Hypertensive Patients in Gondar Town, Ethiopia.
作者信息
Asfaw Erku Daniel, Basazn Mekuria Abebe
机构信息
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
出版信息
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2016;2016:6987636. doi: 10.1155/2016/6987636. Epub 2016 Oct 23.
. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies are being widely used by hypertensive patients worldwide. However, evidences regarding CAM use by hypertensive patients in Ethiopia are limited. This study aimed at assessing prevalence and correlates of CAM use among hypertensive patients attending ambulatory clinic at Gondar University Referral Hospital (GURH), Ethiopia. . A cross-sectional study was employed on 423 patients visiting GURH. Descriptive statistics and bivariate and multivariate logistic regression tools were used to analyze/come up with the prevalence and correlates of CAM use. . The prevalence of CAM use in our study was found to be 67.8% and herbal based medicine was the most commonly utilized CAM therapies. Majority of CAM users (70.2%) did not disclose CAM use for their physician. However, nearly half of CAM users (48.4%) were satisfied with the result of CAM use. . The higher prevalence of CAM use among hypertensive patients coupled with a very low disclosure rate to their health care providers can have a marked potential to cause ineffective hypertensive management and adverse effects due to CAM use. Health care providers should be open to discussing the use of CAM with their patients as it will lead to better health outcome.
全球范围内,高血压患者广泛使用补充和替代医学(CAM)疗法。然而,埃塞俄比亚高血压患者使用CAM的相关证据有限。本研究旨在评估埃塞俄比亚贡德尔大学转诊医院(GURH)门诊高血压患者中CAM的使用情况及其相关因素。
对423名前往GURH就诊的患者进行了横断面研究。使用描述性统计以及二元和多元逻辑回归工具来分析/得出CAM使用情况及其相关因素。
在我们的研究中,CAM的使用率为67.8%,草药是最常用的CAM疗法。大多数使用CAM的患者(70.2%)未向其医生透露使用CAM的情况。然而,近一半使用CAM的患者(48.4%)对使用CAM的效果感到满意。
高血压患者中CAM的高使用率以及向医疗服务提供者的极低披露率,极有可能导致高血压管理无效以及因使用CAM而产生不良反应。医疗服务提供者应乐于与患者讨论CAM的使用,因为这将带来更好的健康结果。
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