Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviors of People Referred to Health Centers of Tehran About Iranian Traditional Medicine

Traditional medicine in Iran with the long and old background from ancient period until now has very beneficial practical and technical experience. At present despite development of conventional medicine, many patients refer to traditional medicine. This study aimed to investigate knowledge, practice and attitude toward Iranian Traditional Medicine.

This study is cross-sectional and the sample of the study was 350 persons whorefer to health centers of Tehran (older than 15 year). Our data was collected via standard questionnaire.

Mean age of participant was 34.1; SD; 1.21 and 60.9% were women. Their knowledge about Iranian traditional medicine was 26.3% and 69% of them has used at least one of the traditional medicine methods that the most of them were herbal therapy(70.1%) and Hejamat(44%).generally the attitude was positive and (37%)had extremely positive and (57.6%)positive attitude toward traditional Iranian Medicine.

In light of this result it is clear that Iranian people have a positive tendency toward Iranian Traditional medicine, so the best and complete researches for better planning is recommended.