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Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India
The study assessed: (1) the prevalence of exclusive use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), exclusive use of modern medicine and combined use; (2) the factors associated with exclusive CAM use; and (3) the expenditure for CAM use among type-2 diabetes patients in rural Kerala. We survey...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29868217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2017.6 |
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author | Vishnu, N. Mini, G. K. Thankappan, K. R. |
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description | The study assessed: (1) the prevalence of exclusive use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), exclusive use of modern medicine and combined use; (2) the factors associated with exclusive CAM use; and (3) the expenditure for CAM use among type-2 diabetes patients in rural Kerala. We surveyed 400 diabetes patients selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Exclusive CAM use was reported by 9%, exclusive modern medicine by 61% and combined use by 30%. Patients without any co-morbidity were four times, those having regular income were three times and those who reported regular exercise were three times more likely to use exclusive CAM compared with their counterparts. Expense for medicines was not significantly different for CAM compared with modern medicine both in government and private sector. Patients with any co-morbidity were less likely to use CAM indicating that CAM use was limited to milder cases of diabetes. |
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spelling | pubmed-58704402018-06-04 Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India Vishnu, N. Mini, G. K. Thankappan, K. R. Glob Health Epidemiol Genom Original Research Article The study assessed: (1) the prevalence of exclusive use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), exclusive use of modern medicine and combined use; (2) the factors associated with exclusive CAM use; and (3) the expenditure for CAM use among type-2 diabetes patients in rural Kerala. We surveyed 400 diabetes patients selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Exclusive CAM use was reported by 9%, exclusive modern medicine by 61% and combined use by 30%. Patients without any co-morbidity were four times, those having regular income were three times and those who reported regular exercise were three times more likely to use exclusive CAM compared with their counterparts. Expense for medicines was not significantly different for CAM compared with modern medicine both in government and private sector. Patients with any co-morbidity were less likely to use CAM indicating that CAM use was limited to milder cases of diabetes. Cambridge University Press 2017-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5870440/ /pubmed/29868217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2017.6 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Article Vishnu, N. Mini, G. K. Thankappan, K. R. Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India |
title | Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India |
title_full | Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India |
title_fullStr | Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India |
title_short | Complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in Kerala, India |
title_sort | complementary and alternative medicine use by diabetes patients in kerala, india |
topic | Original Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29868217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2017.6 |
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