Ghaedi Heidari Fatemeh, Dehghan Mahlagha, Mokhtarabadi Sima
Nursing and Midwifery School, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Nursing Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
J Family Reprod Health. 2020 Sep;14(3):180-185. doi: 10.18502/jfrh.v14i3.4671.
This study aimed to assess the use of some Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) techniques in infertile men. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 102 infertile men referred to the only center of infertility in Kerman, Iran using convenience sampling. Data were collected using a two-part researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics (chi-square test and logistic regression) with SPSS 16. According to the present study, 72.5% of subjects used at least one of the CAM methods in the past year. Among them 28.4% of the subjects have used one CAM technique, 13.7% have used two techniques, 8.8% have used three techniques, 9.8% have used four techniques, and 11.8% have used more than four techniques since the last year. None of the socio-demographic characteristics had significant association with being the user of complementary and alternative medicines. The results showed that almost three quarters of the infertile men used CAM indicating a high prevalence of CAM usage among them.
本研究旨在评估一些补充替代医学（CAM）技术在不育男性中的使用情况。本横断面研究采用便利抽样法，对转诊至伊朗克尔曼唯一一家不孕不育中心的102名不育男性进行了研究。使用由研究者编制的两部分问卷收集数据，并使用SPSS 16进行描述性和分析性统计（卡方检验和逻辑回归）分析。根据本研究，72.5%的受试者在过去一年中至少使用过一种补充替代医学方法。其中，自去年以来，28.4%的受试者使用过一种补充替代医学技术，13.7%使用过两种技术，8.8%使用过三种技术，9.8%使用过四种技术，11.8%使用过四种以上技术。社会人口学特征与补充替代医学使用者之间均无显著关联。结果显示，近四分之三的不育男性使用补充替代医学，表明其在他们当中的使用率很高。
