Andy Sharma
Middle-aged and Older Adult Employment and the Perceived Risk of Running Out of Money during COVID-19: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
The Gerontologist
objective study document prevalence traditional complementary alternative medicine tcam use adult cancer patients national teaching hospital malawi aim document productstherapies used reason use well patientreported satisfaction tcam practitioners modalities conducted investigatoradministered interviews adult cancer patients presenting kamuzu central hospital kch cancer clinic lilongwe malawi january july 2018 kch national teaching hospital capital lilongwe serves patients cancer northern half malawi descriptive statistics used describe tcam use logistic regression applied identify predictors tcam total 263 participants completed survey 70 n 183 female average age 45 sd 14 years old prevalence overall tcam use 84 n 222 60 n 157 participants reported combining tcam conventional cancer treatment majority patients used tcam directly treat cancer versus symptom management patients reported using faithbased healing 64 n 168 herbal medicine 56 n 148 diet change 46 n 120 vitaminsminerals 23 n 61 participants reported highest satisfaction physicians among practitioners diet change modalities female gender found predictor tcam conventional treatment use significant predictors observed high prevalence tcam use among adult population cancer malawi wide variety tcam modalities used among patients additional studies needed identify risks benefits tcam use assist policy public health patient safety holistically address global burden cancer