Awareness and use of home remedies in Italy’s alps: a population-based cross-sectional telephone survey

Bubola E. In Italyʼs alps, traditional medicine flourishes, as does covid. The New York Times [Internet]. New York (NY); 2021 Dec 16; Available from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/world/europe/italy-alps-bolzano-covid-vaccination.html.

Benvenuto O, Gobbi G. South Tyrol in Fig. 2014 [Internet]. Provincial Statistics Institute ASTAT, Autonomous Province of South Tyrol; 2014. Available from: https://astat.provinz.bz.it/downloads/Siz_2014-eng.pdf.

Gruppo Italiano per la Medicina Basata sulle Evidenze. Pandemia Coronavirus [Internet]. Vaccini. [cited 2021 Dec 14]. Available from: https://coronavirus.gimbe.org/vaccini.it-IT.html.

Roberts H. Italy’s German-speaking north caught up in latest coronavirus surge. Politico [Internet]. 19.11.2021; Available from: https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-german-speaking-bolzano-south-tyrol-coronavirus-surge/.

Natter B. Krankheiten. und Impfungen - Anfrage 3293/18 vom 23.01.2018 [Internet]. Bolzano (BZ), Italia: Landesrätin für Gesundheit, Sport, Soziales und Arbeit - Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol; 2018 Mar. Available from: http://www2.landtag-bz.org/documenti_pdf/idap_508501.pdf.

Barati F, Pouresmaieli M, Ekrami E, Asghari S, Ziarani FR, Mamoudifard M. Potential Drugs and Remedies for the Treatment of COVID-19: a Critical Review. Biol Proced Online. 2020;22:15.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Gleason JL, Jamison A, Freimuth VS, Quinn SC. Home remedy use and influenza vaccination among African American and white adults: An exploratory study. Prev Med. 2019;125:19–23.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Guay M, Gosselin V, Petit G, Baron G, Gagneur A. Determinants of vaccine hesitancy in Quebec: a large population-based survey. Hum Vaccin Immunother Taylor & Francis. 2019;15:2527–33.

Article  Google Scholar 

Frawley JE, Foley H, McIntyre E. The associations between medical, allied and complementary medicine practitioner visits and childhood vaccine uptake. Vaccine. 2018;36:866–72.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Vögele A, Engl A, Wiedermann C. Verwendung von Hausmitteln bei deutsch- und italienischsprachigen Erwachsenen in Südtirol, Italien. 51 Kongress für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin [Internet]. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2017. p. Doc17degam258. Available from: https://www.egms.de/static/en/meetings/degam2017/17degam258.shtml.

Ausserhofer D, Wiedermann W, Becker U, Vögele A, Piccoliori G, Wiedermann CJ, et al. Health information-seeking behavior associated with linguistic group membership: latent class analysis of a population-based cross-sectional survey in Italy, August to September 2014. Arch Public Health. 2022;80:87.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Re ML, Schmidt S, Güthlin C. Translation and adaptation of an international questionnaire to measure usage of complementary and alternative medicine (I-CAM-G). BMC Complement Altern Med. 2012;12:259.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Eardley S, Bishop FL, Cardini F, Santos-Rey K, Jong MC, Ursoniu S, et al. A pilot feasibility study of a questionnaire to determine European Union-wide CAM use. Forsch Komplementmed. 2012;19:302–10.

PubMed  Google Scholar 

Bollen KA, Jackman RW. Regression Diagnostics: An Expository Treatment of Outliers and Influential Cases. Sociol Meth Res SAGE Publications Inc. 1985;13:510–42.

Article  Google Scholar 

Hayes AF, Matthes J. Computational procedures for probing interactions in OLS and logistic regression: SPSS and SAS implementations. Behav Res Meth. 2009;41:924–36.

Article  Google Scholar 

Hagenaars JA, McCutcheon AL. Applied latent class analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2002.

Book  Google Scholar 

Marsh HW, Lüdtke O, Trautwein U, Morin AJ. Classical latent profile analysis of academic self-concept dimensions: Synergy of person-and variable-centered approaches to theoretical models of self-concept. Struct Equ Model. 2009;16:191–225.

Article  Google Scholar 

Roeder K, Lynch KG, Nagin DS. Modeling uncertainty in latent class membership: A case study in criminology. J Am Stat Assoc. 1999;94:766–76.

Article  Google Scholar 

Vermunt JK. Latent Class Modeling with Covariates: Two Improved Three-Step Approaches. Political Analysis. 18: Cambridge University Press; 2017. pp. 450–69.

Muthén LK. Mplus users guide. Los Angeles: Muthén & Muthén; 2010.

Google Scholar 

Sterba SK. Interpreting and testing interactions in conditional mixture models. Appl Develop Sci. 2016;20:29–43.

Article  Google Scholar 

Parisius LM, Stock-Schröer B, Berger S, Hermann K, Joos S. Use of home remedies: a cross-sectional survey of patients in Germany. BMC Fam Pract. 2014;15:116.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Winkler NE, Sebo P, Haller DM, Maisonneuve H. Primary care patients’ perspectives on the use of non-pharmacological home remedies in Geneva: a cross-sectional study. BMC Complement Med Ther. 2022;22:126.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Fleming S, Rabago DP, Mundt MP, Fleming MF. CAM therapies among primary care patients using opioid therapy for chronic pain. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2007;7:15.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Simões-Wüst AP, Rist L, Dettling M. Self-reported health characteristics and medication consumption by CAM users and nonusers: a Swiss cross-sectional survey. J Altern Complement Med. 2014;20:40–7.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Xue CCL, Zhang AL, Lin V, Da Costa C, Story DF. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Australia: A National Population-Based Survey. J Altern Complement Med. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers; 2007;13:643–50.

Abheiden H, Teut M, Berghöfer A. Predictors of the use and approval of CAM: results from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). BMC Complement Med Ther. 2020;20:183.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Kavadar G, Demircioğlu DT, Can H, Emre TY, Civelek E, Senyigit A. The clinical factors associated with benefit finding of complementary medicine use in patients with back pain: A cross-sectional study with cluster analysis. J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil IOS Press. 2017;30:271–7.

Article  Google Scholar 

Yang L, Peng W, Adams J, Sibbritt D. Prevalence and characteristics of Australian women aged 45 and older who consult acupuncturists for their osteoarthritis. Int J Clin Pract. 2017;71:e13040.

Article  Google Scholar 

Johannessen H, Von Bornemann Hjelmborg J, Pasquarelli E, Fiorentini G, Di Costanzo F, Miccinesi G. Prevalence in the use of Complementary Medicine among Cancer Patients in Tuscany, Italy. Tumori. 94: SAGE Publications Ltd STM; 2008. pp. 406–10.

Petelka J, Plagg B, Säumel I, Zerbe S. Traditional medicinal plants in South Tyrol (northern Italy, southern Alps): biodiversity and use. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2020;16:74.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Thielmann A, Gerasimovska-Kitanovska B, Buczkowski K, Koskela TH, Mevsim V, Czachowski S, et al. Self-Care for Common Colds by Primary Care Patients: A European Multicenter Survey on the Prevalence and Patterns of Practices—The COCO Study. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. Hindawi; 2016;2016:e6949202.

Hoffman RD, Thielmann A, Buczkowski K, Edirne T, Hoffmann K, Koskela T, et al. Gender differences in self-care for common colds by primary care patients: a European multicenter survey on the prevalence and patterns of practices (the COCO study). J Gend Stud Routledge. 2021;30:756–71.

Article  Google Scholar 

Winkler NE, Sebo P, Haller DM, Maisonneuve H. Patients’ Perspectives on the Use of Non-pharmacological Home Remedies in Geneva: a Cross-sectional Study [Internet]. Research Square. 2021 [cited 2021 Dec 28]. Available from: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-480132/v2.

Sebo P, Haller DM, Sommer J, Excoffier S, Gaboreau Y, Maisonneuve H. General practitioners’ perspectives on the use of nonpharmacological home remedies in two regions in Switzerland and France. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. EMH Media; 2018 [cited 2021 Dec 28]; Available from: https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2018.14676.

Dal Negro RW, Zanasi A, Turco P, Povero M. Influenza and influenza-like syndromes: the subjects’ beliefs, the attitude to prevention and treatment, and the impact in Italian general population. Multidiscip Respir Med. 2018;13:7.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Verger P, Collange F, Fressard L, Bocquier A, Gautier A, Pulcini C, et al. Prevalence and correlates of vaccine hesitancy among general practitioners: a cross-sectional telephone survey in France, April to July 2014. 21: Eurosurveillance. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; 2016. p. 30406.

Neufeind J, Betsch C, Habersaat KB, Eckardt M, Schmid P, Wichmann O. Barriers and drivers to adult vaccination among family physicians – Insights for tailoring the immunization program in Germany. Vaccine. 2020;38:4252–62.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Sundaram N, Schaetti C, Purohit V, Kudale A, Weiss MG. Cultural epidemiology of pandemic influenza in urban and rural Pune, India: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study. BMJ Open British Medical Journal Publishing Group. 2014;4:e006350.

Google Scholar 

Günalan E, Cebioğlu İK, Çonak Ö. The Popularity of the Biologically-Based Therapies During Coronavirus Pandemic Among the Google Users in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and France. Complement Ther Med. 2021;58:102682.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Pristinger F. Ethnic conflict and modernization in the South Tyrol. In: Charles R, Foster, editors. Nations without a State Ethnic Minorities in Western Europe. New York (NY): Praeger; 1980. pp. 153–88.

Google Scholar 

Ausserhofer D, Wiedermann W, Wiedermann CJ, Becker U, Vögele A, Piccoliori G, et al. Health Information-Seeking Behaviors of a German Speaking Minority in Italy: Latent Class Analysis of a Population-Based Cross-Sectional Survey. Research Square [Internet]. 2021; Available from: www.researchsquare.com.

van der Werf ET, Busch M, Jong MC, Hoenders HJR. Lifestyle changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey in the Netherlands. BMC Public Health. 2021;21:1226.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Ariza M, Guerrisi C, Souty C, Rossignol L, Turbelin C, Hanslik T, et al. Healthcare-seeking behaviour in case of influenza-like illness in the French general population and factors associated with a GP consultation: an observational prospective study. BJGP Open [Internet]. Royal College of General Practitioners; 2018 [cited 2022 Mar 27];1. Available from: https://bjgpopen.org/content/1/4/bjgpopen17X101253.

Filice E, Dubé E, Graham JE, MacDonald NE, Bettinger JA, Greyson D, et al. Vaccination discourses among chiropractors, naturopaths and homeopaths: A qualitative content analysis of academic literature and Canadian organizational webpages. PLOS ONE Public Library of Science. 2020;15:e0236691.

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Hornsey MJ, Lobera J, Díaz-Catalán C. Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine. Soc Sci Med. 2020;255:113019.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Attwell K, Ward PR, Meyer SB, Rokkas PJ, Leask J. “Do-it-yourself”: Vaccine rejection and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Soc Sci Med. 2018;196:106–14.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Deml MJ, Dietrich LG, Wingeier B, Etter G, Gallmann C, Berger C, et al. Collaborating with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Providers When Writing HPV Vaccine Review Articles. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; 2020. p. 592.

Sandberg JC, Spears Johnson CR, Nguyen HT, Talton JW, Quandt SA, Chen H, et al. Mobile and Traditional Modes of Communication Among Male Latino Farmworkers: Implications for Health Communication and Dissemination. J Immigr Minor Health. 2016;18:522–31.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Garcia-Continente X, Pérez-Giménez A, López MJ, Nebot M. [Potential selection bias in telephone surveys: landline and mobile phones]. Gac Sanit. 2014;28:170–2.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

World Medical Association. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. JAMA. 2013;310:2191–4.

Article  Google Scholar 

留言 (0)

沒有登入
gif