| Autor: |
Bijoy Laxmi Saha, Md. Omar Reza Seam, Md. Mainul Islam, Abhijit Das, Sayed Koushik Ahamed, Palash Karmakar, Md. Fokhrul Islam, Sukalyan Kumar Kundu |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
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| Zdroj: |
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1472-6882 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12906-017-1832-y |
| Popis: |
Abstract Background Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a combination of herbal medicine, traditional therapies, and mind-body intervention. This descriptive study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, perception and self-use of CAM among Bangladeshi undergraduate pharmacy students. The study also evaluated their opinions about its integration into the pharmacy course curriculum. Methods It was a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study conducted on 250 pharmacy students of five reputed public universities of Bangladesh. Results This study revealed that majority of the pharmacy students were using or had previously used at least one type of CAM. Among the students, 59% had used homeopathy followed by Ayurveda (30%), meditation (29%), massage (13%), Unani (9%), yoga (6%) and acupuncture (2%). Students’ attitudes towards CAM were influenced by family and friends, books and journals, the internet and to a lesser degree by health practitioners. A significant (p |
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