{"id":4248,"date":"2023-07-15T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:16:02","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2020-31-1-61-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2020-31-1-61-71\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2020) 31 (1) 61 – 71"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Complementary and alternative medicine use among ambulatory diabetes patients in a South-Western tertiary\u00a0<\/b>hospital in Nigeria<\/b><\/p>

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Oluwatoyin T. Famurewa , Akinniyi A. Aje , Babatope A. Kolawole<\/p>

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1Pharmacy Department, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

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2Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan,\u00a0<\/span>Ibadan, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

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3Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

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Corresponding Author: Akinniyi A. Aje<\/p>

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Background:<\/b> Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease with an increasing incidence and prevalence worldwide\u00a0while complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is an emerging aspect in DM management. The use of CAM\u00a0<\/span>among DM patients has not been widely studied in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives:<\/b> To study the prevalence and pattern of use of CAM and to identify reasons for their use among DM\u00a0patients in a University Teaching Hospital in South-Western Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

Method:<\/b> Semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 119 diabetes patients. Socio-demographic data,\u00a0prescribed medications, pattern of CAM use and patient’s disclosure of CAM were documented. Data was\u00a0<\/span>organized using SPSS statistics version 20 and analysis was done using chi-square test.<\/span><\/p>

Result:<\/b> A response rate of 95% was obtained. Age range of study participants was 40-90 years with 72.6% above\u00a060years of age. Duration of use of DM medication among patients ranged from 4 months to 33 years. The\u00a0<\/span>prevalence rate of CAM use was 69% with biological based therapies being the only form of CAM used. Patients\u00a0<\/span>who had been on DM medication for more than 4 years made up 75.3% of CAM users and used more CAM\u00a0<\/span>combinations. Patients were introduced to CAM mainly by friends (41%) and neighbours (38.5%). Only 9% of CAM\u00a0<\/span>users told their physicians about their use of CAM.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> CAM is becoming an important aspect in the management of DM which should be studied and\u00a0explored. Healthcare practitioners need to be open-minded about the use of CAM so as to give adequate\u00a0<\/span>information to help patients make informed decision for the goal of achieving better therapeutic outcomes.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Diabetes mellitus, Complementary and alternative medicine, Nigeria.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Complementary and alternative medicine use among ambulatory diabetes patients in a South-Western tertiary\u00a0hospital in Nigeria \u00a0 Oluwatoyin T. Famurewa , Akinniyi A. Aje , Babatope A. Kolawole \u00a0 1Pharmacy Department, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria \u00a0 2Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan,\u00a0Ibadan, Nigeria \u00a0 3Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}