The availability and validity of safety information of Over the Counter herbal products for use in diabetes in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study.

Medagama, Arjuna; Widanapahirana, Heshan; Prasanga, Tharindu

doi:10.5455/jice.20151104093108

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“…Herbal drug users need reliable and accessible information for safe and appropriate use of herbal drugs. All of these sources of information have serious limitations when it comes to adequate advice for the use of herbal drugs (25). The information about herbal drugs which could be found on Internet is often incomplete and inaccurate (26).…”

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The attitudes and habits of patients toward use of herbal drugs

Stanojević¹,

Nikolić²,

Jovanović³

et al. 2019

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Objective. The aim of study was to examine the factors associated with the use of herbal drugs among patients in Serbia, as well as to assess the attitudes and habits of patients toward the use of herbal drugs. Methods. The study was designed as an observational, cross-sectional study. The research was conducted during February 2018 in six community pharmacies across the municipalities of Despotovac and Ćuprija. Study population consisted of adult volunteers of both genders and over 18 years of age who had purchased drugs in one of the six pharmacies involved in the study. Participants filled out the semi-structured questionnaires which had been specifically designed for purposes of this research. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. The first part comprised five questions relating to socio-demographic characteristics of participants, while the second part of the questionnaire was composed of eight questions concerning the use of herbal products. The study data were analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics by SPSS statistical program. Results. There were 190 participants in total. The average age of the study subjects was 47.83 ± 15.9 years (the youngest was 18, while the oldest was 87 years old). Some form of herbal product was used by 145 (76.3%) participants. The most common reasons for the use of herbal drugs were common cold (22.6%), improving the digestion (8.9%), stimulation of immune system (7.5%), dermatological problems (7.5%), cough (4.8 %) and rheumatic complaints (4.8%). The most frequently participants gained information on use of herbal drugs from pharmacists (26.9%), from sources provided by Internet (21.0%), from their physicians (11.8%) and from family members and friends (10.8%). Of the total number 67.7% of participants considered herbal drugs to be completely safe for use. Slightly more than half of the study subjects (52.7%) gave information on using the herbal drug to their physicians. The binary logistic regression analyses showed that herbal drugs were more commonly used by younger women, with a higher school or university degree who prefer to use herbal medicines compared to other drugs. Conclusion. The results of our study have shown that herbal drugs had been more commonly used by younger women, with a higher school degree or university degree, and who declared that they preferred to use herbal drugs in relation to other drugs.

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The attitudes and habits of patients toward use of herbal drugs

Stanojević¹,

Nikolić²,

Jovanović³

et al. 2019

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“…These services include nutritional (eg, special diets, dietary supplements, and herbs), psychological (eg, mindfulness), and physical (eg, massage, spinal manipulation) approaches 1 . Herbs are often commercially produced and purchased over the counter or locally/home produced 2 . Because evidence-based medicine is a major part of health professionals' decision-making strategies, the need to evaluate and determine what CIH may be safe, effective, and appropriate is a major challenge.…”

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“…Patients with diabetes and comorbidities tend to merge CIH with conventional medicine as a self-care strategy 5 . Almost one in two patients with diabetes use at least one type of CIH, 92% of which are nutritional supplements 6 ; yet, the validity of the available information on over-the-counter products for use in diabetes is lacking 2 . Moreover, almost half of all patients do not inform their healthcare professional about their CIH use 7 .…”

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“…1 Herbs are often commercially produced and purchased over the counter or locally/home produced. 2 Because evidence-based medicine is a major part of health professionals' decision-making strategies, the need to evaluate and determine what CIH may be safe, effective, and appropriate is a major challenge. The World Health Organization recognizes the need to strengthen knowledge on the proper use of CIH to ensure effective decision-making and to integrate CIH into healthcare service delivery and self-health care.…”

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“… 5 Almost one in two patients with diabetes use at least one type of CIH, 92% of which are nutritional supplements 6 ; yet, the validity of the available information on over-the-counter products for use in diabetes is lacking. 2 Moreover, almost half of all patients do not inform their healthcare professional about their CIH use. 7 The lack of professional involvement in decision-making about CIH use in conjunction with conventional medicine carries the following serious risks: adulteration, adverse effects, herb-drug interaction, side effects, and toxic effects from contamination.…”

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Factors Considered Important by Healthcare Professionals for the Management of Using Complementary Therapy in Diabetes

Chang

Yang

et al. 2022

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing

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Text-mining algorithms can identify the most prevalent factors of risk-benefit assessment on the use of complementary and integrative health approaches that are found in healthcare professionals' written notes. The aims of this study were to discover the key factors of decision-making on patients' complementary and integrative health use by healthcare professionals and to build a consensus-derived decision algorithm on the benefit-risk assessment of complementary and integrative health use in diabetes. The retrospective study of an archival dataset used a text-mining method designed to extract and analyze unstructured textual data from healthcare professionals' responses. The techniques of classification, clustering, and extraction were performed with 1398 unstructured clinical notes made by healthcare professionals between 2019 and 2020. The most important factor for decision-making by healthcare professionals about complementary and integrative health use in patients with diabetes was the ingredients of the product. Other important factors were the patient's diabetes control, the undesirable effects from complementary and integrative health, evidence-based complementary and integrative health, medical laboratory data, and the product's affordability.This exploratory text-mining study provides insight into how healthcare professionals decide complementary and integrative health use for patients with diabetes after a risk-benefit assessment from clinical narrative notes.

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