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Evaluasi Praktik Dokter yang Meresepkan Jamu untuk Pasien Penderita Penyakit Degenerative di 12 Propinsi
WHO has recommended the use of traditional medicine for degenerative diseases. The objective of this study is to evaluate the implementation of CAM doctors practice in using traditional medicine for degenerative diseases in 12 provinces. Data were collected through interviews using questionnaire to CAM doctors purposively.
This study showed that 86% of 145 the respondents did CAM practice by using traditional medicine. Almost half (49%) of the doctors, were in Central Java Province and 50% were independent doctors. There were 91.2% doctors did CAM practice by demand from the society as main reason. Based on the doctor’s perception and opinion, the main reason for the patients seeing the doctors and asking for traditional medicine were trust (85.1%). There were initiatives to differentiate CAM patient medical record from the common one (28.3 %) and ask patients to sign the informed consent (43.4%). The most common medicinal plant utilized by doctors, consecutively were jahe (arthritis), sambiloto ( hyperglicaemia), seledri ( hypertension), jati belanda ( hyperlipidemia, and obesity), and also sidaguri ( hyperuricemia). Based on the doctors’ opinion, the most rapid disease to heal with traditional medicine consecutively were arthritis, hyperglycemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, and the last was obesity. Traditional medicine prescribed by the doctors in the community had already been the patient choice. The CAM doctors believed there were benefits from traditional medicine.
Keywords : complementary-alternative medicine practice, traditional medicines, degenerative diseases, doctor
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