Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Geleneksel ve Tamamlayıcı Tıp Dergisi, cilt.7, sa.1, ss.8-15, 2024 (TRDizin)
ABS TRACT Objective: Our study aims to examine whether patients’
perspectives on traditional and complementary medicine
(T&CM) are affected by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic. Material and Methods: Our study is cross-sectional descriptive.
The population consists of patients aged 18 years and older
who applied to the family medicine outpatient clinic of a university
hospital between January 2022 and June 2022. Healthcare workers
were excluded from the study to avoid medical bias. A sociodemographic
questionnaire consisting of 18 items and a T&CM Attitude
Scale consisting of 27 items prepared by McFadden et al. were administered
to the participants. A pilot study was conducted with 38
people. According to the pilot study results, the sample calculation
was made, and the study was carried out with 450 people. Results:
Post-COVID-19 scores were significantly higher in the T&CM Attitude
Scale total score and in the sub-dimensions of “view of traditional
medicine”, “dissatisfaction with modern medicine”, and
“holistic view of health” (p<0.001). The increase in the total score on
the T&CM Attitude Scale was more evident in those who had used
any T&CM method before, in those whose family members had used
the T&CM method, and in those who found T&CM methods useful
(all p<0.001). There was no significant difference in the total score
between those with COVID-19 infection and those without (p=0.215).
Conclusion: The view for T&CM was found to increase positively
after the COVID-19 pandemic, and this positive outlook was independent
of being infected with COVID-19.