To explore the affecting factors in choosing medical methods from the perspective of patients

Abstract

Abstracts Introduction: For many years, traditional medicine has been welcomed by patients. Meanwhile, a number of patients still use modern medicine services. Obviously, by assessing patients' condition and effective factors in their tendency, legitimate solutions and health policies can be derived to minimize the side effects of treatment and maximum benefit their beneficial effects. Objective: The general objective of this research is to identify the factors that influence the choice of medical methods from the perspective of patients. Method and Materials: The present study is a qualitative study with conventional content analysis approach. The study population consisted of visiting patients in the Sina Hospital of Tabriz, which consisted of 20 people who were selected by purpose-based method. The data were analyzed using semi-structured deep interviews between 2016-2017. Data analysis was done concurrent with collecting data and using the MAXQDA 10 software. Findings: According to the results of the data analysis, were indicated eight main themes and seventeen subthemes. The themes were as follows: "preferring modern medicine", "lower cost of treatment in modern medicine rather than traditional medicine in some ways", "trust in diagnosis with paraclinical tools in modern medicine", "a feeling of disease improvement and obtaining good result in replacing modern medicine with traditional medicine", "more trust in diagnosis and treatment in traditional medicine", "preferring less invasive and more sustainable treatment in traditional medicine", "tendency to use traditional treatments with fewer side effects", and "role of social, cultural and religious factors". Conclusion: The results showed that effective factors in selection of modern medicine include fast efficacy, lower cost of treatment, and trust in diagnosis with paraclinical tools and effective factors in the selection of traditional medicine include obtaining good result, trust, preferring less invasive treatment, tendency to use treatments with fewer side effects and trust in information resources.