The Influence of People's Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Traditional Treatment

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10.2991/phico-16.2017.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Knowledge, attitudes, and traditional treatment

Abstract

Traditional medicine is the treatment by means of drugs and treatment which refers to the experience and skills from generation to generation and it is applied in accordance with the norms prevailing in society. The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of people's knowledge and attitudes toward a traditional treatment to victims of traffic accidents. This research is an analytical Survey with Cross-sectional approach. Research samples (total population) comprised 47 people. Data were analyzed by univariate and Bivariate (kai Squares). From the data obtained that the people who suffered a traffic accident were 25 people (27.8%). The results showed a significant influence of factors of knowledge and attitude of the people and traditional treatment for traffic accident victims, where the results ware (P Value < = 0.05). There is a significant relationship between people's knowledge and attitudes and traditional treatment to victims of traffic accidents in the district of Nagan Raya, Seunagan Year 2015. It is expected that the public can choose the appropriate traditional treatment in order to get a good healing and has no side effects.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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