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Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia

BACKGROUND: In Malaysia, the number of reported cases of dengue fever demonstrates an increasing trend. Since dengue fever has no vaccine or antiviral treatment available, it has become a burden. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become one of the good alternatives to treat the patie...

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Main Authors: Siew, Mooi Ching, Ramachandran, Vasudevan, Lai, Teck Gew, Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna, Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa, Yoke, Loong Foo, Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin, Samsudin, Nurul Huda, Chih Lau, Paul Chih Ming, Veettil, Sajesh K., Hoo, Fankee
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Published: BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55346/1/Complementary%20alternative%20medicine%20use.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.553462017-11-06T14:16:06Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55346/ Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia Siew, Mooi Ching Ramachandran, Vasudevan Lai, Teck Gew Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa Yoke, Loong Foo Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin Samsudin, Nurul Huda Chih Lau, Paul Chih Ming Veettil, Sajesh K. Hoo, Fankee BACKGROUND: In Malaysia, the number of reported cases of dengue fever demonstrates an increasing trend. Since dengue fever has no vaccine or antiviral treatment available, it has become a burden. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become one of the good alternatives to treat the patients with dengue fever. There is limited study on the use of CAM among patients with dengue fever, particularly in hospital settings. This study aims to determine the prevalence, types, reasons, expenditure, and resource of information on CAM use among patients with dengue fever. METHODS: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study of 306 patients with dengue fever, which was carried out at the dengue clinic of three hospitals. Data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 21.0 and logistic regression analysis was used to determine the factors associated with CAM use. RESULTS: The prevalence of CAM use was 85.3% among patients with dengue fever. The most popular CAMs were isotonic drinks (85.8%), crab soup (46.7%) and papaya leaf extract (22.2%). The most common reason for CAM use was a good impression of CAM from other CAM users (33.3%). The main resource of information on CAM use among patients with dengue fever was family (54.8%). In multiple logistic regression analysis, dengue fever patients with a tertiary level are more likely to use CAM 5.8 (95% confidence interval (CI 1.62-20.45) and 3.8 (95% CI 1.12-12.93) times than secondary level and primary and below respectively. CONCLUSION: CAM was commonly used by patients with dengue fever. The predictor of CAM use was a higher level of education. BioMed Central 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55346/1/Complementary%20alternative%20medicine%20use.pdf Siew, Mooi Ching and Ramachandran, Vasudevan and Lai, Teck Gew and Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna and Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa and Yoke, Loong Foo and Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin and Samsudin, Nurul Huda and Chih Lau, Paul Chih Ming and Veettil, Sajesh K. and Hoo, Fankee (2016) Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 16 (37). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1472-6882 10.1186/s12906-016-1017-0
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description BACKGROUND: In Malaysia, the number of reported cases of dengue fever demonstrates an increasing trend. Since dengue fever has no vaccine or antiviral treatment available, it has become a burden. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become one of the good alternatives to treat the patients with dengue fever. There is limited study on the use of CAM among patients with dengue fever, particularly in hospital settings. This study aims to determine the prevalence, types, reasons, expenditure, and resource of information on CAM use among patients with dengue fever. METHODS: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study of 306 patients with dengue fever, which was carried out at the dengue clinic of three hospitals. Data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 21.0 and logistic regression analysis was used to determine the factors associated with CAM use. RESULTS: The prevalence of CAM use was 85.3% among patients with dengue fever. The most popular CAMs were isotonic drinks (85.8%), crab soup (46.7%) and papaya leaf extract (22.2%). The most common reason for CAM use was a good impression of CAM from other CAM users (33.3%). The main resource of information on CAM use among patients with dengue fever was family (54.8%). In multiple logistic regression analysis, dengue fever patients with a tertiary level are more likely to use CAM 5.8 (95% confidence interval (CI 1.62-20.45) and 3.8 (95% CI 1.12-12.93) times than secondary level and primary and below respectively. CONCLUSION: CAM was commonly used by patients with dengue fever. The predictor of CAM use was a higher level of education.
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author Siew, Mooi Ching
Ramachandran, Vasudevan
Lai, Teck Gew
Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna
Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa
Yoke, Loong Foo
Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
Samsudin, Nurul Huda
Chih Lau, Paul Chih Ming
Veettil, Sajesh K.
Hoo, Fankee
spellingShingle Siew, Mooi Ching
Ramachandran, Vasudevan
Lai, Teck Gew
Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna
Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa
Yoke, Loong Foo
Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
Samsudin, Nurul Huda
Chih Lau, Paul Chih Ming
Veettil, Sajesh K.
Hoo, Fankee
Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
author_facet Siew, Mooi Ching
Ramachandran, Vasudevan
Lai, Teck Gew
Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna
Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa
Yoke, Loong Foo
Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin
Samsudin, Nurul Huda
Chih Lau, Paul Chih Ming
Veettil, Sajesh K.
Hoo, Fankee
author_sort Siew, Mooi Ching
title Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
title_short Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
title_full Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
title_fullStr Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
title_sort complementary alternative medicine use among patients with dengue fever in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional study in malaysia
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2016
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55346/1/Complementary%20alternative%20medicine%20use.pdf
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