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Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities
OBJECTIVES: This study is a comparative analysis of the satisfaction and recognition characteristics for traditional Korean medicine (TKM) in people with disabilities and the general population of Korea. METHODS: Here, 5,000 subjects were categorized into two groups based on a disability rating usin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2022.25.1.24 |
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author | Han, Ji-Eun Kim, Jihye Kim, Kyeong Han Lee, Ji-Yeon Sung, Soo-Hyun |
author_facet | Han, Ji-Eun Kim, Jihye Kim, Kyeong Han Lee, Ji-Yeon Sung, Soo-Hyun |
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description | OBJECTIVES: This study is a comparative analysis of the satisfaction and recognition characteristics for traditional Korean medicine (TKM) in people with disabilities and the general population of Korea. METHODS: Here, 5,000 subjects were categorized into two groups based on a disability rating using the data from the 2017 National Survey for the Usage of Korean Medicine. The relationships among the sociodemographic characteristics, TKM usage status, recognition of TKM usage, and recognition of the effectiveness of the TKM treatment were analyzed based on the disease. The response reliability was verified using the chi-square test analysis method. RESULTS: Disabilities corresponded with low rates of high school or higher education (44%, 83.5%) and no jobs (56.9%, 33.5%), mostly the status of the low-income class with a monthly household income of < 1,500 USD (50.9%, 10.5%), poor health conditions (55.2%, 9.8%), high chronic disease prevalence rate (69.0%, 19.9%), high medical care rate (11.2%, 0.5%), and low commercial health insurance subscription rate (44%, 74.2%). Furthermore, people with disabilities visited TKM institutions more often (88.8%, 74.1%) with a high frequency TKM usage rate of ≥ 1-2 times a month (26.2%, 15.3%). They also reported that the cost of using the TKM was very high (14.7%, 8.8%) and that primarily the application of insurance benefits should be improved (52.6%, 47.5%). The treatment effectiveness for diseases was high for musculoskeletal disorders for both people with disabilities and the general population. CONCLUSION: Preferential application of insurance benefits for musculoskeletal diseases must be extended to the TKM treatment as well, as people with disabilities have a high recognition for these conditions with TKM. It is difficult to perform randomized controlled trials on people with disability. Therefore, large-scale observational and cohort studies should be conducted. We hope this study will help establish a suitable TKM policy for people with disabilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-89479702022-04-01 Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities Han, Ji-Eun Kim, Jihye Kim, Kyeong Han Lee, Ji-Yeon Sung, Soo-Hyun J Pharmacopuncture Original Article OBJECTIVES: This study is a comparative analysis of the satisfaction and recognition characteristics for traditional Korean medicine (TKM) in people with disabilities and the general population of Korea. METHODS: Here, 5,000 subjects were categorized into two groups based on a disability rating using the data from the 2017 National Survey for the Usage of Korean Medicine. The relationships among the sociodemographic characteristics, TKM usage status, recognition of TKM usage, and recognition of the effectiveness of the TKM treatment were analyzed based on the disease. The response reliability was verified using the chi-square test analysis method. RESULTS: Disabilities corresponded with low rates of high school or higher education (44%, 83.5%) and no jobs (56.9%, 33.5%), mostly the status of the low-income class with a monthly household income of < 1,500 USD (50.9%, 10.5%), poor health conditions (55.2%, 9.8%), high chronic disease prevalence rate (69.0%, 19.9%), high medical care rate (11.2%, 0.5%), and low commercial health insurance subscription rate (44%, 74.2%). Furthermore, people with disabilities visited TKM institutions more often (88.8%, 74.1%) with a high frequency TKM usage rate of ≥ 1-2 times a month (26.2%, 15.3%). They also reported that the cost of using the TKM was very high (14.7%, 8.8%) and that primarily the application of insurance benefits should be improved (52.6%, 47.5%). The treatment effectiveness for diseases was high for musculoskeletal disorders for both people with disabilities and the general population. CONCLUSION: Preferential application of insurance benefits for musculoskeletal diseases must be extended to the TKM treatment as well, as people with disabilities have a high recognition for these conditions with TKM. It is difficult to perform randomized controlled trials on people with disability. Therefore, large-scale observational and cohort studies should be conducted. We hope this study will help establish a suitable TKM policy for people with disabilities. The Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute (KPI) 2022-03-31 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8947970/ /pubmed/35371584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2022.25.1.24 Text en © 2022 Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Han, Ji-Eun Kim, Jihye Kim, Kyeong Han Lee, Ji-Yeon Sung, Soo-Hyun Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
title | Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
title_full | Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
title_fullStr | Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
title_full_unstemmed | Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
title_short | Traditional Korean Medicine Usage and Perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
title_sort | traditional korean medicine usage and perception: a comparative study between the general population and the disabilities |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2022.25.1.24 |
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