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1.A Study on Community Health Practitioners' Knowledge of, Use Patterns of, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM).

Soyaja KIM ; Soon Bok CHANG ; Kyoung A NAM

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2006;17(4):563-572

2.A Study on Community Health Practitioners' Knowledge of, Use Patterns of, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM).

Soyaja KIM ; Soon Bok CHANG ; Kyoung A NAM

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2006;17(4):563-572

10.The Gap Between Knowledge And Perception On Education In Traditional And Complementary Medicine Among Medical Staff In Malaysia

Maihebureti Abuduli ; Zaleha Md Isa ; Syed Mohamed Aljunid

Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 2015;15(1):77-82

Although the Ministry of Health Malaysia has been encouraging the practice of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T&CM)1, 2, 3, 4 but patients/clients has not been able to apply it for their need of medical treatments and sometimes it leads to negative outcomes due to lack of knowledge on T&CM and its safe applications5,6’7,8 Most of the western-trained physicians are ignorant of risk and benefits of T&CM9,10,11. This study was aimed to determine the gap between knowledge regarding T&CM and perception on education in T&CM among the medical staffs in five selected hospitals in Malaysia. A cross-sectional survey was done at five public hospitals among medical staff in Malaysia by using quantitative methods. A total of 477 medical staffs were involved in this study. The study showed that the overall knowledge of T&CM among the medical staffs were poor (61.2%). Having good knowledge regarding T&CM were significantly higher in Hospital Duchess of Kent (52%, p=0.001), among the non-Malays (44%, p=0.047) and pharmacists (47.2%, p=0.030). Positive perception on health education in T&CM among medical staffs were high (85.3%) especially among females (88.1%, p=0.002) and pharmacists (93.7%, p<0.001). The use of T&CM among the general population is relatively high in Malaysia and many patients increasingly seek the information on T&CM therapies from medical staffs. Knowledge regarding T&CM was poor in this study because most of the medical staffs have not been exposed to T&CM education. This interesting scenario between poor knowledge and high positive perception on health education in T&CM shows the demand of urgent intervention in educating the medical staffs. We recommend that medical staffs must have some basic education and knowledge about T&CM before they could offer advice to their patients. Doctors are of the utmost important in this regard because they play a very important role in patient care. Providing T&CM education to medical staff may help to integrate T&CM into the mainstream medicine.
Medicine, Traditional ; Complementary Therapies

1.A Study on Community Health Practitioners' Knowledge of, Use Patterns of, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM).

2.A Study on Community Health Practitioners' Knowledge of, Use Patterns of, and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM).

3.Alternative Medicine.

4.Physician's Attitude and Approach toward Alternative Medicine.

5.Alternative Medicine in U.S.A..

6.A Critical Overview of Alternative Medicine.

7.Complementary Alternative Medicine in Atopic Dermatitis.

8.The Use of Alternative Therapies by Patients.

9.The Practice of Alternative Medicine in Korea.

10.The Gap Between Knowledge And Perception On Education In Traditional And Complementary Medicine Among Medical Staff In Malaysia

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