Assessement Of Traditional Medicine Utilization For Children And Associated Factors Among Parents In Tole Woreda Southwest Shoa Oromia Ethiopia 2017

In many culture, traditional medicine used as one of primary health care refined over hundreds orrneven thousands of years. Historians from all around the world have produced evidence to showrnthat apparently all primitive peoples used traditional medicine often in sophisticated way. InrnEthiopia up to 80% of the population uses traditional medicine due to the cultural acceptability ofrnhealers and local pharmacopeias, the relatively low cost of traditional medicine and difficultrnaccess to modern health facilities.rnObjective: The aim of this study was to assess traditional medicine utilization and itsrndeterminants among parents of children, in Tole Wareda, South West of Oromia, Ethiopia, 2017.rnMethod: A community based quantitative cross sectional study was employed among all parentsrnwho have children up to 18 years old. Data were collected using pre-tested structured interviewerrnadministered questionnaire. The study was conducted among 267 households selected byrnsystematic random sampling technique after pre assessment and numbering of

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