Aragaw Tezera Jemere, Afework Dessie Tegegne, Getahun Kefyalew Ayalew
Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Department of Medical Laboratory, College of Health Sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2020 Mar 10;2020:6565131. doi: 10.1155/2020/6565131. eCollection 2020.
Traditional medicine is used by about 80% of the Ethiopian people to meet their healthcare needs. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of the community on traditional medicine in Debre Tabor town.
A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out from November 1, 2018, to December 30, 2018, with a face-to-face interview method and involved 402 participants recruited by systematic random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. The association of independent and dependent variables was determined by binary logistic regression.
Among the participants, 294 (73.13%) were females and 108 (26.87%) were males. The ages of participants ranged from 18 to 80 (mean age of the participants was 35.73 ± 0.59 years). Above three-fourths, 322 (80.1%) of the participants had good knowledge. 158 (39.3%) of the participants had a good attitude and 145 (36.1%) of the participants used traditional medicines in their lifetime for different ailments. From all the participants who use traditional medicine, 41 (28.3%) encountered minor adverse effects.
The study participants in Debre Tabor have good knowledge but poor attitude and utilization of traditional medicine.
约80%的埃塞俄比亚人使用传统医学来满足他们的医疗保健需求。本研究的目的是评估德布雷塔博尔镇社区对传统医学的知识、态度和实践情况。
于2018年11月1日至2018年12月30日开展了一项基于社区的横断面研究,采用面对面访谈方法,通过系统随机抽样技术招募了402名参与者。使用SPSS 20.0版软件对数据进行分析。通过二元逻辑回归确定自变量和因变量之间的关联。
参与者中,女性有294人(73.13%),男性有108人(26.87%)。参与者年龄在18至80岁之间(参与者的平均年龄为35.73±0.59岁)。超过四分之三,即322名(80.1%)参与者有良好的知识水平。158名(39.3%)参与者有良好的态度,145名(36.1%)参与者一生中曾因不同疾病使用过传统药物。在所有使用传统药物的参与者中,41名(28.3%)遭遇过轻微不良反应。
德布雷塔博尔镇的研究参与者对传统医学有良好的知识,但态度和使用率较差。