Altern Ther Health Med. 2022 Oct 28:AT7548. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
CONTEXT: Medical treatment is critical in the healing of diabetic foot ulcers. Diabetic patients in many countries have recently started using complementary and supportive practices.
OBJECTIVES: The study intended to examine the complementary and supportive medical practices and their self-efficacy against foot ulcers that can develop in diabetic patients.
DESIGN: The research team conducted a cross-sectional and descriptive study.
SETTING: The study took place at internal-medicine outpatient clinics at a hospital in Turkey.
PARTICIPANTS: Participants were 656 diabetes patients who came the clinics between March and May 2021.
OUTCOME MEASURES: The research team collected data with a structured questionnaire and the Diabetic Foot Care Self-efficacy Scale (DFCSES).
RESULTS: Significant differences existed in gender, educational status, and average income level as well as between the (CAM) users and non-CAM A statistically significant difference existed between users and non-users of CAM. Users diabetes treatment type, go to regular doctor check-up, had other chronic disease, had a foot problem, regularly did leg and foot gymnastics, regularly did foot examination and often did foot examination.
CONCLUSIONS: The most popular products among CAM users were herbal products: Nigella sativa, Nigella sativa oil, cinnamon, and cinnamon oil. The mean scores for non-users of CAM were lower on the DFCSES.
PMID:36302232
