A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in a Non-urban Malaysian Population

Teow, Yee Ern Esther; Ng, Siew C.; Azmi, Aisyah Hannan Mohd; Hamzah, Muhammad Rafie; Kaur, Jaslinder; Mathiarasu, Dhivya Sree; Mogan, Dhivakaran; Ong, Shu Chyi; Subramaniam, Yuvashini P; Sweneson, Thatchiayani; Tan, Jia Yi Monique; Tee, Leh Way; Mathialagan, Amuthan Ganesh; Tee, Hui Yew Olivia; Thomas, Warren

doi:10.1007/s10900-020-00891-z

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“…There was a cross-sectional study assessing CAM use among Malaysian population; a higher frequency of CAM use among different cultural groups was obviously indicated. For instance, massage was the usual practice in Malay community, while acupuncture was widespread in Chinese community [ 28 ]. Meanwhile, there was a study observing 1,427 Australians that specified that those who lived in rural areas used more CAM than those who lived in urban areas [ 29 ].…”

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The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Thai Gynecologic Oncology Patients: Influencing Factors

Chukasemrat

Charakorn

Lertkhachonsuk

2021

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Background. To determine the factors influencing the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in gynecologic cancer patients and the prevalence and pattern of CAM use. Methods. This was a cross-sectional study of 370 gynecologic cancer patients conducted at the outpatient clinic, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. After obtaining informed consent, participants were asked to complete a standardized questionnaire including sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, detail of CAM use, attitude of CAM use, and quality of life using EORTC-QLQ-C30. Results. The prevalence of CAM use was 25.13%. The most common type was herbal medicine (55.90%). The participants who resided or had a birthplace in rural areas presented with a higher proportion of CAM use than those in urban areas ( P = 0.470 and P = 0.004 , respectively). Participants who received multiple modalities of cancer treatment reported a significantly higher proportion of CAM use ( P = 0.024 ). Most CAM users agreed that the CAM could be used in combination with standard treatment, and some rather disagreed that CAM could interrupt the treatment effect of the conventional treatment. CAM users had significantly higher role functioning in quality-of-life scores. Conclusion. Factors influencing CAM use in gynecologic cancer patients were rural area birthplace or residency, receiving multiple modalities of cancer treatment, having positive attitude toward CAM use. CAM users had better performance in role functioning in the quality-of-life score. Therefore, gynecologic oncologists should pay attention to these factors in order to communicate with gynecologic cancer patients about CAM use.

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The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Thai Gynecologic Oncology Patients: Influencing Factors

Chukasemrat

Charakorn

Lertkhachonsuk

2021

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…The 27 studies included in the systematic review represented a pool of 37,249 patients, 29,342 of whom were further included in the meta-analysis. Fourteen studies were conducted in the Central region of Malaysia [6,13,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], three in the Northern [14,28,29] and Eastern Regions each [11,30,31], and one in Borneo [15]. Three of them were nationwide studies [32][33][34], while the remaining three studies did not specify the participants' regions [35][36][37].…”

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“…Six studies took place in nursing homes [14,18,19,21,28,36], 14 in healthcare facilities (hospitals and clinics) [6,11,[15][16][17]20,24,26,27,30,32,33,35,37] and seven in the community [13,22,23,25,29,31,34]. The appropriateness of drug use was assessed using either the medication appropriateness index [15,18], the Beers [13,14,18,21,36] or the START/STOPP criteria [14,18,21,28,30,35,36].…”

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Prevalence of Drug-Related Problems and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Malaysia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 37,249 Older Adults

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Drug-related problems (DRPs) in the elderly include polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate medications, nonadherence, and drug-related falls. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, the prevalence of DRPs and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among the Malaysian elderly was estimated. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases were searched to identify studies published since their inception up to 24 August 2020. A random-effects model was used to generate the pooled prevalence of DRPs along with its corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI). The heterogeneity of the results was estimated using the I2 statistics, and Cochran’s Q test and sensitivity analyses were performed to confirm the robustness of the results. We identified 526 studies, 23 of which were included in the meta-analysis. (n = 29,342). The pooled prevalence of DRPs among Malaysian elderly was as follows: (1) polypharmacy: 49.5% [95% CI: 20.5–78.6], (2) potentially inappropriate medications: 28.9% [95% CI: 25.4–32.3], (3) nonadherence to medications: 60.6% [95% CI: 50.2–70.9], and (4) medication-related falls 39.3% [95% CI: 0.0–80.8]. Approximately one in two Malaysian elderly used CAM. The prevalence of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications among the Malaysian elderly population was high, calling for measures and evidence-based guidelines to ensure the safe medication use.

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“…In Malaysia, the use of HDS was already prevalent before the pandemic. Studies conducted in Malaysia between 2014 and 2019 showed that the use of HDS was common among the general public and patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia ( Loo et al, 2020 , Teow et al, 2021 , Wahab et al, 2021 , Zaki et al, 2018 ). Data from a nationally representative sample of the Malaysian Adults Nutrition Survey (MANS) 2014 showed that 28.1% of the survey participants used vitamin/mineral supplements ( Zaki et al, 2018 ).…”

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The use of herbal and dietary supplements for COVID-19 prevention: A survey among the public in a Malaysian suburban town

Wahab

Hamdi

Ali

et al. 2023

Journal of Herbal Medicine

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A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in a Non-urban Malaysian Population

Cited by 10 publications

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The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Thai Gynecologic Oncology Patients: Influencing Factors

The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Thai Gynecologic Oncology Patients: Influencing Factors

Prevalence of Drug-Related Problems and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Malaysia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 37,249 Older Adults

The use of herbal and dietary supplements for COVID-19 prevention: A survey among the public in a Malaysian suburban town

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