ArticleBMC complementary and alternative medicine2010
Use of complementary and alternative medicines by a sample of Turkish women for infertility enhancement: a descriptive study.
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- Complementary and alternative medicine use among infertile women attending infertility specialty clinics in South Korea: does perceived severity matter?BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2019Article
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- Prevalence and Correlates of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Patients with Lung Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study in Beirut, Lebanon.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017Article
- Use of complementary and alternative medicines in haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study from Palestine.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2016Article
- Predictors of traditional medicines utilisation in the Ghanaian health care practice: interrogating the Ashanti situation.Journal of community health · 2015Article
- Characterizing Herbal Medicine Use for Noncommunicable Diseases in Urban South Africa.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015Article
- Perspectives of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners in the support and treatment of infertility.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Article
- Complementary and alternative medicine use in infertility: cultural and religious influences in a multicultural Canadian setting.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with use of herbal medicine among women attending an infertility clinic in Uganda.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Article
- Complementary and alternative medicine utilization by a sample of infertile couples in Jordan for infertility treatment: clinics-based survey.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2013Article
- Prevalence and determinants of complementary and alternative medicine use among infertile patients in Lebanon: a cross sectional study.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundInfertility patients are a vulnerable group that often seeks a non-medical solution for their failure to conceive. World-wide, women use CAM for productive health, but only a limited number of studies report on CAM use to enhance fertility. Little is known about traditional and religious forms of therapies that are used in relation to conventional medicine in Turkey. We investigated the prevalence and types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) used by infertile Turkish women for fertility enhancement.
methodsA face-to-face questionnaire inquiring demographic information and types of CAM used for fertility enhancement were completed by hundred infertility patients admitted to a primary care family planning centre in Van, Turkey between January and July 2009.
resultsThe vast majority of infertile women had used CAM at least once for infertility. CAM use included religious interventions, herbal products and recommendations of traditional "hodja's" (faith healers). Of these women, 87.8% were abused in the last 12 months, 36.6% felt not being supported by her partner and 80.5% had never spoken with a physician about CAM.
conclusionsInfertile Turkish women use complementary medicine frequently for fertility enhancement and are in need of information about CAM. Religious and traditional therapies are used as an adjunct to, rather than a substitute for, conventional medical therapy. Physicians need to approach fertility patients with sensitivity and should be able to council their patients about CAM accordingly.
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