Table 2 Health care professionals’ perception of TCM preventive and health care services
Items | N (%) |
|---|---|
Familiarity | |
Very familiar | 56 (16.7) |
Basic understanding | 197 (58.8) |
Unsure | 49 (14.6) |
Basically no understanding | 28 (8.4) |
Never heard of it | 5 (1.5) |
Advantages | |
Prevention and control of complications | 242 (72.2) |
Few side effects | 255 (76.1) |
Good healing effect | 189 (56.4) |
High patient adherence | 165 (49.3) |
Low cost | 130 (38.8) |
Easy to use | 121 (36.1) |
Willingness to adopt | |
Yes | 166 (49.6) |
Might try | 161 (48.1) |
No | 8 (2.4) |
Suitable method of promotion | |
Educational presentation | 255 (76.1) |
TV & networking | 241 (71.9) |
Newspapers & books | 223 (66.6) |
Community promotion | 211 (63.0) |
Face-to-face discussion | 213 (63.6) |
Family & friends | 117 (34.9) |
Others | 27 (8.1) |