Attitudes Toward Psychological Disorders and Alternative Medicine in Saudi Participants
This study was designed to investigate Saudis' attitudes toward mental distress and psychotropic medication, attribution of causes, expected side effects, and to analyze participants' expectations toward alternative or complementary medicine using aromatic and medicinal plants, through a s...
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Published in | Frontiers in psychiatry Vol. 12; p. 577103 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
Frontiers Media S.A
12.02.2021
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Summary: | This study was designed to investigate Saudis' attitudes toward mental distress and psychotropic medication, attribution of causes, expected side effects, and to analyze participants' expectations toward alternative or complementary medicine using aromatic and medicinal plants, through a survey.
The study included 674 participants (citizens and residents in Saudi Arabia) who were randomly contacted via email and social media and gave their consent to complete a questionnaire dealing with 39 items that can be clustered in six parts. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square for cross-tabulation were generated using SPSS.
Among the 664 participants, 73.4% believed that there are some positive and negative outcomes of psychotropic medication. Participants (72.0%) think that the most important reason leading to psychological disorders is mainly due to the loss of a relative or beloved person, and 73.9% considered psychic session as one of the possible treatments of psychological disorders. Surprisingly, only 18.8% of the participants agreed that medicinal and aromatic plants could be a possible treatment of the psychological disorder. Participants (82%) consider that physicians are the most trustful and preferred source of information about alternative and complementary medicine. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 This article was submitted to Public Mental Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry Reviewed by: Mansour Adam Mahmoud, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia; Emad Masuadi, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia These authors have contributed equally to this work Edited by: Wulf Rössler, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany |
ISSN: | 1664-0640 1664-0640 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.577103 |