Use of complementary and alternative medicine therapies in the Coronel Portillo province, Ucayali, Peru

Autor: Rocio Santiváñez-Acosta, Félix Valenzuela-Oré, Yolanda Angulo-Bazán
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, Vol 37, Iss 3, Pp 510-5 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1726-4634
1726-4642
86874470
DOI: 10.17843/rpmesp.2020.373.4939
Popis: A cross-sectional study was carried out to evaluate the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies and the factors associated with it, in the province of Coronel Portillo (Ucayali) during 2013. A total of 917 surveys were carried out among household heads in three districts of the province (Callería, Manantay and Yarinacocha), in which the proportion of CAM use was calculated and the relationship with sociodemographic variables (age, sex, educational level, marital status, occupation and income) was analyzed. From the total, 179 respondents (19.5%) mentioned that they used CAM in the last 12 months. A statistically significant relationship was found between the use of CAM therapies and educational level (p 0.001), respondent’s occupation (p 0.001) and monthly income (p 0.001). Future research will define the found associations and the variables involved.
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