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Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India
BACKGROUND: Siddha system is a complementary system of medicine popular in South India. Information on common morbidities for which people seek care in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) systems and especially in Siddha hospitals is very limited. This knowledge will...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30309742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2017.06.009 |
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author | Duraisamy, Venkatachalam Thekkur, Pruthu Majella, Marie Gilbert Srinivasan, Manikandan Saya, Ganesh Kumar Chinnakali, Palanivel |
author_facet | Duraisamy, Venkatachalam Thekkur, Pruthu Majella, Marie Gilbert Srinivasan, Manikandan Saya, Ganesh Kumar Chinnakali, Palanivel |
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description | BACKGROUND: Siddha system is a complementary system of medicine popular in South India. Information on common morbidities for which people seek care in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) systems and especially in Siddha hospitals is very limited. This knowledge will help in prioritizing diseases and developing standard treatment guidelines. OBJECTIVE(S): The present study was designed with the aim to describe the morbidity profile of the adult patients attending Siddha Out Patient Department (OPD) at Government Hospitals in Erode district of Tamil Nadu. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among adult (15–59 years) patients, who attended Siddha Hospital OPDs during February, 2014. Two block level health facilities were randomly selected from ten block hospitals offering Siddha services in Erode district of Tamil Nadu. Information on socio-demographic characteristics like age, gender and education was captured using a pre-tested proforma. Diagnosis was done by treating Siddha practitioners as per reporting format. Data were single entered and analyzed using EpiData software. RESULTS: Of the total 1786 patients who attended the Siddha OPD, 1720 (96%) completed the interviews. Mean (Standard Deviation) age of participants was 41 (11) years and 913 (53%) were females; 20% had no formal education. Of 1720 participants, arthritis (21%), neuritis (10%), fungal diseases (7%) were the top three morbidities, with arthritis and neuritis being most common morbidities in both males and females. CONCLUSION: Arthritis, neuritis and fungal diseases were the most common morbidities, for which patients sought care in Siddha hospitals. These morbidities can be considered for preparing standard treatment guidelines under the national programme. |
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spelling | pubmed-63142332019-01-07 Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India Duraisamy, Venkatachalam Thekkur, Pruthu Majella, Marie Gilbert Srinivasan, Manikandan Saya, Ganesh Kumar Chinnakali, Palanivel J Ayurveda Integr Med Original Research Articles - Clinical BACKGROUND: Siddha system is a complementary system of medicine popular in South India. Information on common morbidities for which people seek care in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) systems and especially in Siddha hospitals is very limited. This knowledge will help in prioritizing diseases and developing standard treatment guidelines. OBJECTIVE(S): The present study was designed with the aim to describe the morbidity profile of the adult patients attending Siddha Out Patient Department (OPD) at Government Hospitals in Erode district of Tamil Nadu. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among adult (15–59 years) patients, who attended Siddha Hospital OPDs during February, 2014. Two block level health facilities were randomly selected from ten block hospitals offering Siddha services in Erode district of Tamil Nadu. Information on socio-demographic characteristics like age, gender and education was captured using a pre-tested proforma. Diagnosis was done by treating Siddha practitioners as per reporting format. Data were single entered and analyzed using EpiData software. RESULTS: Of the total 1786 patients who attended the Siddha OPD, 1720 (96%) completed the interviews. Mean (Standard Deviation) age of participants was 41 (11) years and 913 (53%) were females; 20% had no formal education. Of 1720 participants, arthritis (21%), neuritis (10%), fungal diseases (7%) were the top three morbidities, with arthritis and neuritis being most common morbidities in both males and females. CONCLUSION: Arthritis, neuritis and fungal diseases were the most common morbidities, for which patients sought care in Siddha hospitals. These morbidities can be considered for preparing standard treatment guidelines under the national programme. Elsevier 2018 2018-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6314233/ /pubmed/30309742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2017.06.009 Text en © 2017 Transdisciplinary University, Bangalore and World Ayurveda Foundation. Publishing Services by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Articles - Clinical Duraisamy, Venkatachalam Thekkur, Pruthu Majella, Marie Gilbert Srinivasan, Manikandan Saya, Ganesh Kumar Chinnakali, Palanivel Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India |
title | Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India |
title_full | Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India |
title_fullStr | Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India |
title_full_unstemmed | Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India |
title_short | Morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of South India |
title_sort | morbidity profile of adult outpatients attending traditional medicine health facilities in a district of south india |
topic | Original Research Articles - Clinical |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30309742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2017.06.009 |
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