Abstract
Knowledge, use of complementary alternative medicine and health-related quality of life among cardiovascular disease patients
Highlights
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide and in Malaysia
A total of ninety respondents were recruited, only a minimum of seventy respondents was required in this study because there would be more CVD cases that were not included in the National Cardiovascular Disease Database (NCVD)-acute coronary syndrome (ACS) Registry as this only involved seventeen public hospitals, one university hospital and the National Heart Institute
Clinical characteristics and pattern of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use were reported in terms of frequency (n) and percentage of cases (%) due to multiple responses being given for those questions
Summary
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide and in Malaysia. The total deaths in Malaysia caused by CVD reached 36% in 2012 (World Health Organization [WHO], 2014; Ang and Chan, 2016). Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common form and was found as the major burden of disease in Malaysia (Ang and Chan, 2016). Many conventional medications are available for treating CVD, the trend of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in recent decades has become more common among patients. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH, 2007), CAM encompasses diverse medical and health care systems, practices and products that are not considered part of conventional medicine, which consist of
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