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Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). This study examined the use of CAM among patients with CHD, the reasons and factors influencing their use, the types of CAM used, and the relationship between...

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Autores principales: Salah, Abdelraouf O., Salameh, Ahmad D., Bitar, Mohanad A., Zyoud, Sa’ed H., Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam S., Al-Jabi, Samah W.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32689988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03028-w
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author Salah, Abdelraouf O.
Salameh, Ahmad D.
Bitar, Mohanad A.
Zyoud, Sa’ed H.
Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam S.
Al-Jabi, Samah W.
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Salameh, Ahmad D.
Bitar, Mohanad A.
Zyoud, Sa’ed H.
Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam S.
Al-Jabi, Samah W.
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description BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). This study examined the use of CAM among patients with CHD, the reasons and factors influencing their use, the types of CAM used, and the relationship between patient’s demographics and the use of CAM. METHODS: In order to determine the prevalence and usage of CAM among Palestinian patients with CHD, a cross-sectional descriptive study was performed from three different hospitals. Using a convenient sampling method, a questionnaire was completed in a face-to-face interview with the patients. Descriptive statistics were used for socio-demographic, and clinical variables. Siahpush scale was used to examine the attitude of CHD patients toward CAM use. RESULTS: Of the 150 patients that were interviewed, 128 (85.3%) of the patients completed the questionnaire. The majority of CAM users reported CAM use for health problems other than CHD, while a total of 59 (45.9%) patients have used CAM for their heart problems. On the other hand, it was found that the place of residency and pattern of CHD were significantly associated with CAM use (p = 0.039 and 0.044, respectively). In addition, religious practices were found to be the most common form of CAM used by patients, while body and traditional alternative methods were the least being used. A significant association between the attitudes of patients with CHD and their use of CAM was found (patients’ attitudes towards alternative medicine and natural remedies were p = 0.011 and 0.044, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: CAM use among our respondents is common. Despite a lack of evidence-based research supporting its potential benefits and side effects. Understanding the factors that affect CAM use by CHD patients offers healthcare workers and policymakers an opportunity to better understand CAM use and ultimately improve patient-physician interactions.
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spelling pubmed-73728402020-07-21 Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine Salah, Abdelraouf O. Salameh, Ahmad D. Bitar, Mohanad A. Zyoud, Sa’ed H. Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam S. Al-Jabi, Samah W. BMC Complement Med Ther Research Article BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). This study examined the use of CAM among patients with CHD, the reasons and factors influencing their use, the types of CAM used, and the relationship between patient’s demographics and the use of CAM. METHODS: In order to determine the prevalence and usage of CAM among Palestinian patients with CHD, a cross-sectional descriptive study was performed from three different hospitals. Using a convenient sampling method, a questionnaire was completed in a face-to-face interview with the patients. Descriptive statistics were used for socio-demographic, and clinical variables. Siahpush scale was used to examine the attitude of CHD patients toward CAM use. RESULTS: Of the 150 patients that were interviewed, 128 (85.3%) of the patients completed the questionnaire. The majority of CAM users reported CAM use for health problems other than CHD, while a total of 59 (45.9%) patients have used CAM for their heart problems. On the other hand, it was found that the place of residency and pattern of CHD were significantly associated with CAM use (p = 0.039 and 0.044, respectively). In addition, religious practices were found to be the most common form of CAM used by patients, while body and traditional alternative methods were the least being used. A significant association between the attitudes of patients with CHD and their use of CAM was found (patients’ attitudes towards alternative medicine and natural remedies were p = 0.011 and 0.044, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: CAM use among our respondents is common. Despite a lack of evidence-based research supporting its potential benefits and side effects. Understanding the factors that affect CAM use by CHD patients offers healthcare workers and policymakers an opportunity to better understand CAM use and ultimately improve patient-physician interactions. BioMed Central 2020-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7372840/ /pubmed/32689988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03028-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Salah, Abdelraouf O.
Salameh, Ahmad D.
Bitar, Mohanad A.
Zyoud, Sa’ed H.
Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam S.
Al-Jabi, Samah W.
Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_full Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_fullStr Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_full_unstemmed Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_short Complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_sort complementary and alternative medicine use in coronary heart disease patients: a cross-sectional study from palestine
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32689988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03028-w
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