Association between complementary and alternative medicine use and prolonged time to conventional treatment among Thai cancer patients in a tertiary-care hospital
| Autor: | Chulaporn Sooksrisawat, Adit Chotipanich, Benjamabhon Jittiworapan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Alternative medicine lcsh:Medicine General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Time to cancer treatment Multivariable linear regression business.industry Health Policy General Neuroscience lcsh:R Conventional treatment Cancer Traditional medicine General Medicine Tertiary care hospital medicine.disease Confidence interval Oncology Complementary and alternative medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Public Health Herbal medicine General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Stage iv business |
| Zdroj: | PeerJ, Vol 7, p e7159 (2019) PeerJ |
| ISSN: | 2167-8359 |
| Popis: | Objectives The purpose of this study is to investigate the patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use and its association with time to conventional treatment. Design A cross-sectional study design was designed. Setting and participants The study was performed at the Chonburi Cancer Hospital, with chart reviews and interviews performed for 426 patients with various cancers between May and December 2018. Results The results indicated that 192 of the 426 patients (45.1%) reported using complementary and alternative medicines; herbal products were the most common type. Approximately 34.3% of these medicines involved unlabeled herbal products with unidentifiable components. The rates of complementary and alternative medicine use were significantly elevated for men and patients with stage IV cancer. The multivariable linear regression analysis of the relationship between factors and the time until conventional treatment was received revealed that the regression coefficient of the use of complementary and alternative medicine was 56.3 (95% confidence interval [27.9–84.6]). This coefficient reflected an additional 56.3 days of time until conventional treatment, relative to patients who did not use complementary and alternative medicine. Conclusions The present study revealed that complementary and alternative medicine use was fairly common among Thai patients with cancer and was associated with a prolonged time to receiving conventional treatment. |
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