Elana T Solomon, Rosemary Luger, Lieketseng Ned
Experiences of teachers in vocational programmes in special needs schools, City of Cape Town
African journal of disability
healthcare workers currently making efforts offer services cater holistic care needs patients previous studies shown healthcare workers encounter challenges advising patients complementary alternative medicine cam even though use widespread many health care workers may received formal education training cam consequently unable address patients questions study explored knowledge perception attitude practice cam healthcare workers garki hospital abuja nigeria institutionbased crosssectional study design convergent parallel mixed methods design used data collection five 5 healthcare workers purposively selected participants key informant interviews two hundred fifty 250 selected using simple random sampling method completed questionnaire data collection instruments used key informant interview guide 35item selfadministered questionnaire knowledge assessed 4item scale maximum score 8 perceptions attitudes assessed using likert scales maximum score 45 20 respectively practice assessed 6item scale maximum score 18 qualitative data analysed using framework analysis quantitative data analysed using descriptive inferential statistics data acquired methods integrated form findings average age respondents quantitative study 340 78 years predominantly females 612 one ten years work experience 688 mean knowledge perception attitude scores 194 139 1308 234 3268 628 respectively multiple linear regression result showed knowledge 2025 p 0044 attitude 5961 p 0000 statistically significant effects practice cam qualitative data revealed majority participants perceive cam favourably provided properly introduced mainstream medicine evidence safety research prove efficacy study shown gaps knowledge practices cam conventional medical practitioners implications ability counsel refer patients may require cam therapies policy research programmatic initiatives seek enhance knowledge cam improve collaboration cam practitioners recommended