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Use of Animal and Animal Products for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment: An Explorative Study in Odisha, India

Severe fatigue, pain, deformity, and disability, are the major concerns for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The extreme pain experienced by the patients often force them to experiment with various indigenous substances including animals and animal products. However, there is little evidence on the use of...

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Autores principales: Samal, Mousumi, Sahoo, Krushna Chandra, Pati, Sanghamitra, Tripathy, Saumya Ranjan, Parida, Manoj Kumar, Das, Bidyut Kumar
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31993436
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00323
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author Samal, Mousumi
Sahoo, Krushna Chandra
Pati, Sanghamitra
Tripathy, Saumya Ranjan
Parida, Manoj Kumar
Das, Bidyut Kumar
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description Severe fatigue, pain, deformity, and disability, are the major concerns for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The extreme pain experienced by the patients often force them to experiment with various indigenous substances including animals and animal products. However, there is little evidence on the use of animals or animal products as traditional medicine in RA. Hence, this study was aimed to explore the experience and perception of patients toward the use of animals and animal products for the treatment of RA. A qualitative, explorative study was conducted at the out-patient-department of Rheumatology of a tertiary care medical college and hospital at Cuttack, Odisha, India. Out of 113 patients with RA, 18 patients gave history of use of animal and/or animal products and were selected for in-depth interviews. The content analysis methods were used for data analysis. Four major categories emerged: (1) prevailing patterns of traditional treatment of RA using animals, (2) beliefs and values behind the traditional treatment of RA, (3) sources and traditional learning pathway of indigenous practices on RA, and (4) ethical aspects of the indigenous practice of using animals and/or animal products in the treatment of RA. This study revealed the practice of eating dead animals to get relief from RA. However, there was hardly any perceived positive outcome of the practice; which indicates the lack of awareness of rational, scientific, treatment, and prevalence of irrational and unethical practices for the treatment of RA. Hence, community awareness, social mobilization, and newer screening tools are necessary to improve the timely detection and prevention of irrational treatment practices among RA patients.
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spelling pubmed-69709672020-01-28 Use of Animal and Animal Products for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment: An Explorative Study in Odisha, India Samal, Mousumi Sahoo, Krushna Chandra Pati, Sanghamitra Tripathy, Saumya Ranjan Parida, Manoj Kumar Das, Bidyut Kumar Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine Severe fatigue, pain, deformity, and disability, are the major concerns for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The extreme pain experienced by the patients often force them to experiment with various indigenous substances including animals and animal products. However, there is little evidence on the use of animals or animal products as traditional medicine in RA. Hence, this study was aimed to explore the experience and perception of patients toward the use of animals and animal products for the treatment of RA. A qualitative, explorative study was conducted at the out-patient-department of Rheumatology of a tertiary care medical college and hospital at Cuttack, Odisha, India. Out of 113 patients with RA, 18 patients gave history of use of animal and/or animal products and were selected for in-depth interviews. The content analysis methods were used for data analysis. Four major categories emerged: (1) prevailing patterns of traditional treatment of RA using animals, (2) beliefs and values behind the traditional treatment of RA, (3) sources and traditional learning pathway of indigenous practices on RA, and (4) ethical aspects of the indigenous practice of using animals and/or animal products in the treatment of RA. This study revealed the practice of eating dead animals to get relief from RA. However, there was hardly any perceived positive outcome of the practice; which indicates the lack of awareness of rational, scientific, treatment, and prevalence of irrational and unethical practices for the treatment of RA. Hence, community awareness, social mobilization, and newer screening tools are necessary to improve the timely detection and prevention of irrational treatment practices among RA patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6970967/ /pubmed/31993436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00323 Text en Copyright © 2020 Samal, Sahoo, Pati, Tripathy, Parida and Das. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sahoo, Krushna Chandra
Pati, Sanghamitra
Tripathy, Saumya Ranjan
Parida, Manoj Kumar
Das, Bidyut Kumar
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title_full Use of Animal and Animal Products for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment: An Explorative Study in Odisha, India
title_fullStr Use of Animal and Animal Products for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment: An Explorative Study in Odisha, India
title_full_unstemmed Use of Animal and Animal Products for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment: An Explorative Study in Odisha, India
title_short Use of Animal and Animal Products for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment: An Explorative Study in Odisha, India
title_sort use of animal and animal products for rheumatoid arthritis treatment: an explorative study in odisha, india
topic Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970967/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00323
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