Acosta PYD, Vega AAA, Jach RM, Oliva MM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: knowledge and adequate use of modalities of natural and traditional medicine provide a valuable tool for improving the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitationof the diseases that affect the Cuban population.
Objective: to expose the level of knowledge about natural and traditional medicine and its indication by physicians of Secondary Health Care.
Methods: a descriptive transversal study was performed with 64doctors, specialists in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, General Surgery and Orthopedics and Traumatology of the hospitals from Mayabeque Province, from March, 2016 to January, 2017. A questionnaire was applied to them to assess knowledge about the main modalities of natural and traditional medicine. A data base was elaborated and the statistical analysis consisted of a distribution of absolute and relative frequencies.
Results: specialists in Pediatrics prevailed,as well as a mean level of knowledge that most of the specialists had in the professional formation area; those who prescribed phyto-drugs were the most frequent and api-drugs sometimes. Doctors without knowledge about acupuntural surgical analgesics.
Conclusions: The investigated specialists in Secondary Health Care from Mayabeque show a mean level of knowledge about natural and traditional medicine; although acupuntural surgical analgesics is unknown by all of them. Phyto-drugs and api-drugs are just prescribed sometimes and physicians who never prescribe Acupuncture prevail.