ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Magnitude and Determinant Factors of Herbal Medicine Utilization Among Mothers Attending Their Antenatal Care at Public Health Institutions in Debre Berhan Town, Ethiopia.
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- Patient-physician communication on herbal medicine use during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence, motivation, and associated factors of medicinal herbs consumption in pregnant women from Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office: a systematic review.Pharmaceutical biology · 2023Pooled it
- Medicinal Plants That Modulate Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity: Implications in Inflammation and Oxidative Stress.Drug design, development and therapy · 2026Review
- Usage of traditional medicine during pregnancy and the associated factors among Basotho women.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025Article
- Motivations for Herbal Medicine use During Pregnancy and Childbirth in Butiama District, Tanzania: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
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- Drug-herb interactions: a challenge and clinical concern in primary healthcare.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
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- Concomitant use of medicinal plants and pharmaceutical drugs among pregnant women in southern Ethiopia.Heliyon · 2023Article
- St. John's Wort usage in treating of perinatal depression.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: World health organization defined herbal medicines as the practice of herbs, herbal materials, herbal preparations, and finished herbal products. Globally women are the primary utilizer of herbal medicine and even they consume it during their pregnancy period. The World health organization reported that the majority of the global population used traditional medicine. This study aimed to assess the magnitude and determinant factors of herbal medicine utilization among pregnant mothers attending their antenatal care at public health institutions in Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia. Methodology: Institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among pregnant mothers who attended their antenatal care at public health institutions in Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia from 12 February 2021 to 12 April 2021. A systematic random sampling method was used to get selected pregnant mothers. Epi data version 3.1 and SPSS version 25 were used for data entry and analysis, respectively. Results: A total of 422 pregnant mothers were included with a 100% response rate and 277 (65.6%) of them used an herbal medicine during their current pregnancy. Educational level up to primary school [AOR 2.21, 95% CI: 1.17 - 4.18], monthly family income of <2,800 ETB [AOR 1.72, 95% CI: 1.01-2.92], and lack of awareness of the complication of herbal medicine utilization [AOR 10.3, 95% CI: 6.27-16.92] were determinant factors of herbal medicine utilization. Conclusion: The utilization of herbal medicine among pregnant mothers in this study is high and almost all of them did not disclose their utilization of herbal medicine to their healthcare providers. The ministry of health should integrate traditional medicine with conventional medicines. Midwives and obstetricians should openly discuss regarding benefits and complications of herbal medicine utilization for those pregnant mothers during their antenatal care counseling sessions as routine care.
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