Allopathic vs. ayurvedic practices in tertiary care institutes of urban North India

Verma, Ujala; Sharma, Rashmi; Gupta, Pankaj; Gupta, S. S.; Kapoor, Bharat

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“…This led to increased significance to their opinion of unavailability of dependable Ayurvedic physician and discouragement of practice by slow action and longer duration of Ayurvedic medicines as possible obstacles about the practice of Ayurveda among Public which also is indicated by some studies 6,15 . Ayurveda non-user group responding about their therapy of choice identified as modern medicine (65%), not any definite (25.5%), followed by homeopathy and Unani in order for their preferences, this finding is also in accordance with other studies published 4,12,13 . However when the non-users were inquired about the modifications they feel might be used to increase the use of Ayurveda among populations, received inputs like that if Ayurveda drugs are made cheaper (41.7%) along with increased scientific validation and acceptation (19.6%) with increased accessibility to establishments providing such facility(19.6%) and shorter duration of treatment might lead to increased use of Ayurveda among the general population, these findings are in found aligned with other studies 12,20 .…”

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“…Being in used by large population of India, Sri-Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Global use of Ayurveda is increasing steadily because of its qualitative strength, essential elements of health and important clues for consistent functioning of life highly logical and rational foundations 4 . In one form or other around 70% of peoples depend on CAM (complementary and alternative medicines) therapies all around the world for their health care needs 1 .…”

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Perception and Practice of Ayurveda Among Users and Non-Users: A Comparative Study

Singh¹,

Katoch²,

Saeed³

et al. 2018

Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm.

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The present study has been designed to capture the current perception and practice of Ayurveda in its users and non-users. With objective of comparing the difference in its source of knowledge among both the groups, satisfaction level among who have already used it and identification of factors that promote or demote it. As this was questionnaire based cross section study, we develop questionnaire for it, after piloting we modified and validated it. This questionnaire was presented to common public via three ways, online portal, printed form and telephonic interview. Respondents for the study were selected after a pre-decided criterion. A total of 728 responses were selected for analysis out of which 376 (52%) were Ayurveda users and 352 (48%) were non-users, out of all participants 222 (30.4%) were females and rest 506 (69.5%) were males. Results also showed that while people of all age groups, both sex, all occupational and educational group uses Ayurveda, it appears that males and peoples older than 30 years of age prefer Ayurveda. Survey made clear that most of the users were more or less satisfied with effect of Ayurveda as they feel. While no statistical significant difference was found in source of knowledge between users and non-users, ignorance and unavailability of dependable Ayurvedic physicians appears to be the main demotivation for common public that prevent to use Ayurveda.

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 99%

Perception and Practice of Ayurveda Among Users and Non-Users: A Comparative Study

Singh¹,

Katoch²,

Saeed³

et al. 2018

Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm.

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“…5 CAM use both in health and disease is a universal phenomenon in developed and developing countries alike. [6][7][8] The propensity for CAM use among patients is most evident in areas such as, oncology, chronic illnesses, where in comfort care is the priority or because of dissatisfaction with some aspects of conventional health care, fear of adverse effects, accessibility, affordability of allopathic medicines, perceived effectiveness of CAM and/or influence by the family/friends. [9][10][11][12] In 2013, WHO estimated that in developing countries including India, wherein majority of the population lives in rural areas, native traditional healers are often the sole health care providers.…”

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Complementary and alternative medicine: practice and perspective of allopathic doctors at a tertiary care hospital

Sundarmurthy

Devarashetty

Reddy

2016

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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“…One of such studies showed that allopathy hospital prescriptions contained 12% Ayurvedic drugs. [25] …”

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Imran

2017

IJGP

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Introduction: The study was conducted to evaluate the drug utilization pattern of Ayurveda, Unani medicines and folk medicine in comparison to the drug from the modern system (allopathy system) in rural areas of Mewat, Haryana. Materials and Methods: The study was cross-sectional questionnaire-based community survey. The 300 healthy adult male volunteers more than 18 years of age participated in the survey in city Nuh of the district Mewat after obtaining the oral consent. All the participants were literate. Main Outcome Measures: The participants were asked about the experiences with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) medications in four different categories. Firstly; their preferences for using Ayurvedic, Unani, herbal, dietary supplements, home remedies or any other external preparation for disease. Second, whether they took the medicine by their own initiative, AYUSH doctor, Pharmacist and on recommendation of any other friend and family members. Third, perceived experiences of the medication taken as effects, side effects and do not know. Fourth, the conditions for which the medication was taken. Results: There was widespread utilization of Ayurveda (62%), Unani (74%) and other traditional therapies (76%) alternatively or complementarily for the different afflictions. The CAM was preferred by 60% of the respondents and 71% consider it to be more effective over allopathy. The majority (83%) sought the CAM treatment on family and friend's recommndations. Conclusions: The CAM therapies have more acceptability in the general public because of their perceived high safety, lesser cost and accessible to the general public. However, the health-care infrastructure for providing acceptable CAM therapy is still lacking.

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Allopathic vs. ayurvedic practices in tertiary care institutes of urban North India

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Perception and Practice of Ayurveda Among Users and Non-Users: A Comparative Study

Perception and Practice of Ayurveda Among Users and Non-Users: A Comparative Study

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