A cross-sectional study of complementary and alternative medicine use in patients with coagulation disorders in Southern Iran

作     者：Mohammadreza Bordbar Mehdi Pasalar Rezvan Aresehiri Sezaneh Haghpanah Soheila Zareifar Fatemeh Amirmoezi 

作者机构：Hematology Research CenterShiraz University of Medical SciencesShiraz ***Iran Research Center for Traditional Persian Medicine and History of MedicineShiraz University of Medical SciencesShiraz ***Iran 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第15卷第5期

页      面：359-364页

核心收录：

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：medicine, traditional complementary medicine alternative therapies coagulation disorder hemophilia Iran 

摘      要：OBJECTIVE：Complementary and alternative medicine（CAM）use has an increasing trend around the *** the wild application of CAM in patients with coagulation disorders,its efficacy is still questioned by many *** aim of this study was to determine the frequency and types of CAM usage,and the factors affecting CAM use among patients with bleeding ***：This cross-sectional study investigated the usage of CAM with a standard validated questionnaire in coagulopathic patients who were referred to Dastgheib Hospital,an educational therapeutic center affiliated to the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz,Southern ***：Between December 2015 and May 2016,75 patients were included in this *** hemophilia A and rare bleeding disorders were the most frequent among our ***,nearly half of the studied population（49.3%）used at least one CAM product or *** most common products were multivitamin（29.3%）,followed by folic acid（21.3%）and chamomile（12%）.32%of the patients resorted to faith *** main reasons of using CAM were reported to be increased general health,correction of anemia and thrombocytopenia and control of bleeding ***：CAM is being used frequently in patients with coagulation disorders like many other chronic illnesses all around the *** to emerging concern regarding the safety and possible interaction with the conventional medicine,it is necessary to develop basic data about the hematologic effects of these methods in order to use them more safely.