https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/298699
標題: | A hospital-based study on the use of alternative medicine in patients with chronic liver and gastrointestinal diseases | 作者: | Yang Zinger C. Yang S.-H. Yang S.-S. DING-SHINN CHEN |
關鍵字: | Alternative medicine; Gastrointestinal disease; Liver disease | 公開日期: | 2002 | 卷: | 30 | 期: | 4 | 起(迄)頁: | 637-643 | 來源出版物: | American Journal of Chinese Medicine | 摘要: | To determine the extent to which Taiwanese patients use alternative medicine, we interviewed 500 consecutive patients with chronic liver and gastrointestinal disorders at an outpatient-service. Forty-two patients were excluded due to incomplete data. The percentages of patients with chronic liver (102/269, 37.9%) and gastrointestinal (74/189,39.2%) diseases using alternative medicine were not significantly different (p = 0.70). The patients who used alternative medicine were not statistically different in gender (p = 0.37), age (p = 0.59), education level (p = 0.83), family income (p = 0.90), or occupation (p = 0.72). Only 36% (64/176) of patients informed their doctors of their use of alternative medicine. The kinds of alternative medicine used by the 176 patients included: Chinese/herbal medicine, 169 (96%); acupuncture, 31 (18%); nutritional supplements, 22 (13%); chiropractic, 17 (10%); scratching, 14 (8%); Qigong, 13 (7%); cupping, 13 (7%); and incense ash, 3 (2%). Sixty-six percent (111/169) of patients used Chinese/herbal medicine in addition to Western allopathic medicine. Only 11% (19/169) of them believed that Chinese/herbal medicine had side effects. Our study indicates the use of alternative medicine occurs across all demographic groups in one-third of patients with chronic liver and gastrointestinal diseases at a major general hospital in Taipei. We suggest that the doctors question all patients for history of alternative therapy use. ? 2002 World Scientific Publishing Company & Institute for Advanced Research in Asian Science and Medicine. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0038352246&doi=10.1142%2fS0192415X02000569&partnerID=40&md5=076bffe911f762aee9547a67bfd3bc2a http://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/298699 |
DOI: | 10.1142/S0192415X02000569 | SDG/關鍵字: | acupuncture; alternative medicine; article; Chinese medicine; chronic liver disease; controlled study; demography; gastrointestinal disease; herbal medicine; hospital; human; manipulative medicine; nutritional support; outpatient care; scratching; supplementation; adult; age; chronic disease; chronic hepatitis; economics; education; female; income; information processing; male; middle aged; occupation; prospective study; sex difference; socioeconomics; Taiwan; utilization review; Adult; Age Factors; Chronic Disease; Complementary Therapies; Data Collection; Education; Female; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Hepatitis, Chronic; Humans; Income; Male; Medicine, Herbal; Middle Aged; Occupations; Prospective Studies; Sex Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Taiwan |
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