Use of complementary therapies among breast cancer patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM)
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Date
2012-06
Authors
Khair, Siti Arsih Mohamad
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Even though there were some researchers done the studies regarding the use of
Complementary Therapies among breast cancer patients, but there were still less official data in
local context. There were only a few studies done regarding this topics in Malaysian. The aim of
this study was to determine the current usage of the complementary therapies used in local
context and how those selected socio-demographic data were associated with the perceptions
towards Complementary Therapies used among breast cancer patients. Samples were taken by
purposive sampling among breast cancer patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM)
either patients that were admitted to the wards or patients who came for follow up in the
outpatient clinic in HUSM (n=70). Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data.
Data was analyzed by using the Statistical Package Social Science (SPSS) software version
18.0. Majority of the samples in this study was came from the middle age group ranged from 31
to 40 years old. There were high in percentage of respondent who's already married (64.3%)
compare to another marital status. The samples also majority (62.9%) came from the average
level of educational level which was completed secondary school. CTs practitioner most
commonly visited by the respondents was dietician or nutritionist (98.57%), and then followed by
herbalist (40.0%). Overall, 100% of the respondents reported as CTs users, most frequently
used was vitamins/minerals (92.8%), and then followed by herbal remedies (82.8%). Chi-square
test was used to identify the association between selected socio-demographic data and the
perceptions towards CTs used. For the age, the p value was 0.004 (p<0.05), which showed that
there were a significant association between age and perceptions. For the marital status, p
value was 0.019 (p<0.05) which also showed that there were a significant association between marital status and perceptions. But, for the educational level, p value was not significant which
p=0.473 (p>0.05), that means there were no significant association between educational level
and perceptions. In conclusion, not all selected socio-demographic data had significant
association with the perceptions towards CTs used.
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breast cancer