Preference and willingness to pay for traditional medicine services in rural ethnic minority community in Vietnam

Tran, Bach Xuan; Nguyen, Ngan; Nguyen, Lan Phuong; Nguyen, Cuong Tat; Nong, Vuong Minh; Nguyen, Long H.

doi:10.1186/s12906-016-1010-7

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“…Broadly speaking traditional medicine use is common amongst people of all levels of education, community size and place of residence. This level of traditional medicine use is comparable with other studies from the region and elsewhere [11][12][13]. Research by Suswardany in neighbouring Indonesia found that respondents used traditional medicine for general health/common illness purposes every day [13].…”

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confidence: 85%

Traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste

Grace

Vaz

Costa

2020

BMC Complement Med Ther

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Background: Traditional medicine use is common amongst peoples in developing nations. Timor-Leste is no exception. However little is known about the prevalence, pattern, satisfaction with, cost or type of traditional medicine used in Timor-Leste. This study aims to describe the prevalence, nature and basic demographic factors associated with contemporary traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste. Methods: A structured interview questionnaire was administered in Tetun to 50 surgical patients, 50 internal medicine patients, 50 hospital staff and 50 hospital visitors at Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares, Timor-Leste's major referral hospital. Results: 60% of respondents reported having used traditional medicine; 32% within the last year. The greatest use was amongst surgical patients, the least amongst hospital staff. The frequency of traditional medicine use was comparable amongst all groups regardless of size of community, residence or level of education. Traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste is sufficiently common to represent part of the cultural norm. Factors described as promoting traditional medicine use included cost, limited access to other medical services and a belief that traditional medicine was free of side effects. Approximately half the patients reported using traditional medicine for their current illness and many for chronic illness in conjunction with conventional medicine. Conclusion: Traditional medicine use is common in Timor-Leste. Medical practitioners need to be cognizant of the common and potentially concomitant use of traditional medicine alongside conventional medicine when treating patients in Timor-Leste.

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confidence: 85%

Traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste

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Costa

2020

BMC Complement Med Ther

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“…Revealing the association results, study participants who had visited THPs before were found to have significant positive attitude, preference of TM as a primary treatment of choice, and were more likely to use TM in the future compared to those who had never visited THPs. Perceived effectiveness of TM [ 5 , 10 , 13 ], satisfaction level [ 12 ], and minimum treatment complications encountered could have possibly motivated the respondents who had used TM to further visit THPs. Rurality [ 27 ], educational level [ 22 , 26 ], marital status [ 22 ], and income [ 22 ] were found to influence subsequent T&CM practices in several studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the last decade, there has also been a global surge in popularity and use of T&CM in both developed and developing countries [ 5 – 9 ]. In which, cultural acceptability [ 2 , 5 , 10 , 11 ], perceived efficacy [ 7 , 12 ], affordability [ 2 , 13 , 14 ], accessibility [ 7 ], and psychological comfort [ 5 ] of TM along with poor access to modern health services [ 5 , 7 , 12 ] and shortage of conventional health professionals [ 7 ], are among the main factors impacting the high degree of utilization.…”

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Traditional medicine among the community of Gash-Barka region, Eritrea: attitude, societal dependence, and pattern of use

Tesfamariam¹,

Tesfai

Hussien

et al. 2021

BMC Complement Med Ther

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Background Despite the growing conventional healthcare coverage in Eritrea, traditional medicine (TM) remains an essential source of healthcare service to the population. This study, therefore, aims at exploring the attitude, societal dependence, and pattern of TM use of the Gash-Barka community. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2018 and January 2019 in Gash-Barka region, one of the six regions of Eritrea. Two-stage stratified cluster sampling design was used to provide representative sample of households. The data collected through face-to-face interview using a structured questionnaire was entered twice and analyzed using CSPro7.2 and SPSS 23, respectively. Both descriptive and analytical analyses were performed to test statistical significance. Results Of the total 210 participants, 202 completed the interview with a response rate of 96.2%. Almost 97% of the respondents were aware of the general existence of TM. About half of the respondents (47.4%) had visited traditional health practitioners (THPs) at least once in their lifetime. The majority of the respondents claimed their medical condition had been improved (63.2%), were satisfied with the outcome (76.8%), and had not encountered complications (95.2%) due to TM use. Around 40% of the respondents admitted they do not disclose previous TM use to conventional health practitioners. Females are more likely to have had ever visited THPs (AOR = 1.85, CI: 1.01, 3.38) and use TM in the future (AOR = 2.26, CI: 0.92, 5.14) than males. Moreover, those who had visited THPs before (COR = 8.30, CI: 3.25, 21.20) are more likely to use TM as a primary treatment choice and prefer to use TM in the future (AOR = 4.40, CI: 1.97, 9.83) than those who had never visited THPs. About 61% of the total families claimed they had circumcised at least one female child, and 96.8% disclosed they had circumcised at least one male child. Out of which, 89.2% of the circumcisions were done by THPs. Conclusion TM is popular and widely relayed upon by Gash-Barka residents with exposure of children to harmful TM practices. Since the reliance of the community on TM is expected to continue, further representative studies are recommended to inform regulatory interventions and integrate TM into the health system.

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“…Awareness of the product was vital for patients to accurately estimate their WTP for the product. 32 , 33 …”

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Feasibility and willingness to pay for dengue vaccine in the threat of dengue fever outbreaks in Vietnam

Nguyen¹,

Tran²,

Duy³

et al. 2018

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BackgroundThe escalation of dengue fever (DF) cases in recent years and the occurrence of a large-scale DF outbreak in 2017 underline the importance of dengue vaccines in Vietnam. Given the potential benefits of the dengue vaccines and the need for copayment by the private sector, this study aims to evaluate the willingness to pay (WTP) for the dengue vaccines in patients with DF in Northern Vietnam.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on 330 in-and-out patients with DF admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital. We used the contingent valuation method to evaluate the WTP for dengue vaccines. Socioeconomic and clinical characteristics were also investigated. Multivariate interval and logistic regression models were used to estimate the average amount of WTP and identify the factors associated with the WTP.ResultsAround 77.3% patients were willing to pay an average amount of US$ 67.4 (95% CI=57.4–77.4) for the vaccine. People of higher ages, those having health insurance, those traveling in the past 15 days or suffering from anxiety/depression were less likely to be willing to pay for the dengue vaccine. However, people having a longer duration of DF or having problems with mobility were positively associated with WTP for the dengue vaccine. Patients educated to more than high school levels (Coeff.=31.31; 95% CI=3.26–59.35), those in the richest quintile (Coeff.=62.76; 95% CI=25.40; 100.13), or those having a longer duration of the disease (Coeff.=6.18; 95% CI=0.72–11.63) were willing to pay a higher amount.ConclusionThis study highlights a relatively high rate and amount of WTP for the dengue vaccine among patients with DF. Psychological counseling services as well as educational campaigns should be undertaken to improve the WTP for the vaccine. Moreover, government subsidies should be given to increase the coverage of the vaccine in the future, especially for the poor.

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Preference and willingness to pay for traditional medicine services in rural ethnic minority community in Vietnam

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste

Traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste

Traditional medicine among the community of Gash-Barka region, Eritrea: attitude, societal dependence, and pattern of use

Feasibility and willingness to pay for dengue vaccine in the threat of dengue fever outbreaks in Vietnam

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