The Effect of Health Literacy to Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine with Quality of Life: Hematological Cancers
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Füsun Uzgör
Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Yasemin KARACAN
Türkiye
Rıdvan Ali
Türkiye
Ayşe Özkaraman
Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | International Journal of Caring Sciences | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1791-5201 | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | DOAJ | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 04-2022 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 15 / 1 / 597–608 | DOI | – |
| Makale Linki | https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/effect-health-literacy-using-complementary/docview/2670468877/se-2?accountid=17219 | ||
| Özet |
| Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of health literacy on CAM usage and health-related quality of life of hematologic cancer patients.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with volunteer patients with patients who were followed up and treated in a hematology clinic and polyclinic of a hospital in Bursa. The research data were collected from the" Individual Identification Form" which was developed by the researchers according to the literature," Health Literacy Questionnaire-European Union (HLS-EU) Scale" and" European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life-C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30)" scale.Results: The mean age of the 81 hematologic cancer patients who constitute the sample of the study was 11% of them use CAT method. It was detected that while patients used CAT methods such as “herbal medicines”,“nutritional treatments and additives” and “hot spring”(respectively% 37;% 35.8;% 29.6) once or twice, they use “self-care”(% 46.9) and “praying”(% 63) on a regular basis. As participants' health literacy mean score was at the limited level with 29.21±12.79. the EORTC quality of life scale overall health status mean score was at mid-level with 53.80±23.64. A weak positive correlation was found between the general health status of the patients and the health literacy score (r= 228. p= 0.041).Conclusion: In our study, the use of CAM of hematologic cancer patients is not common and the general health status improves as the level of health literacy of the patients increases. |
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