COVID-19 home remedy consumption and perceived effectiveness among adult population in Brunei Darussalam: a PLS-SEM approach,BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

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COVID-19 home remedy consumption and perceived effectiveness among adult population in Brunei Darussalam: a PLS-SEM approach
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies ( IF 3.3 ) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 , DOI: 10.1186/s12906-024-04374-9
Siti Nurzaimah Nazhirah Zaim ₁ , Deeni Rudita Idris ₁ , Hanif Abdul Rahman ₁

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Background

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 affects the respiratory system and causes severe acute respiratory infections. Several cultures have influenced the use of home remedies to ease mild symptoms of COVID-19 sometimes alongside conventional medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the usage of COVID-19 home remedies among the adult population in Brunei.

Methods

The study design was a cross-sectional study using an online survey and distributed nationwide. The statistical analysis of the data included descriptive statistics describing the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents, their experience with COVID-19 infection, consumption of general home remedies and COVID-19 home remedy, their practice of COVID-19 home remedy use, and their attitude towards the general use of home remedy. Sub-group analysis including Pearson's chi-square test and Fisher's exact test was computed for the variables in relation to the COVID-19 home remedy use and the perceived effectiveness of the types of home remedy. Multivariate analysis including Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was applied to determine the correlations between the factors and outcomes measured. P-value less than 0.05 is considered statistically significant.

Results

There was a total of 864 eligible responses included in the study. The primary findings showed COVID-19 home remedy was used by 72.2% of the study participants. Most frequently used types of COVID-19 home remedy were cloves (37%), lemon (37%), and honey (23%). There was an infrequent usage of coconut (4.6%), eucalyptus oil (3.7%), habbatussauda (3.5%), traditional/ herbal cough syrup (2.4%), and turmeric (2.2%). The PLS-SEM demonstrated that ‘Experience’ appears to be a central endogenous variable that affects the decision on the use of COVID-19 home remedy. This relationship is mediated by ‘Safety’, ‘Source’, and ‘Opinion’ which have significant contributions to the outcome, accounting for 98.2% of the variance explained (R-square = 0.982).

Conclusions

The outcome of this study establishes the baseline prevalence of COVID-19 home remedy consumption among Bruneian residents and compared the previous study on Brunei’s general use of traditional medicine. The present findings could help nurses and other healthcare professionals in Brunei understand the practice of Bruneian adults on the consumption of home remedies for COVID-19.

中文翻译：

文莱达鲁萨兰国成年人口中的 COVID-19 家庭疗法消费量和感知有效性：PLS-SEM 方法

背景

由 SARS-CoV-2 引起的 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 会影响呼吸系统并引起严重的急性呼吸道感染。多种文化影响了家庭疗法的使用，以缓解 COVID-19 的轻微症状，有时与传统药物并用。本研究的目的是调查文莱成年人口中 COVID-19 家庭疗法的使用情况。

方法

该研究设计是一项采用在线调查的横断面研究，并在全国范围内分发。数据的统计分析包括描述性统计数据，描述了受访者的社会人口特征、他们感染 COVID-19 的经历、一般家庭疗法和 COVID-19 家庭疗法的消费、他们使用 COVID-19 家庭疗法的做法以及他们的态度走向家庭疗法的一般使用。针对与 COVID-19 家庭疗法使用和家庭疗法类型的感知有效性相关的变量，计算了包括皮尔逊卡方检验和费舍尔精确检验在内的亚组分析。应用包括偏最小二乘结构方程模型 (PLS-SEM) 在内的多变量分析来确定因素与测量结果之间的相关性。 P值小于 0.05 被认为具有统计显着性。

结果

该研究总共包含 864 份符合条件的回复。主要调查结果显示，72.2% 的研究参与者使用了 COVID-19 家庭疗法。最常用的 COVID-19 家庭疗法是丁香 (37%)、柠檬 (37%) 和蜂蜜 (23%)。椰子（4.6%）、桉树油（3.7%）、 Habbatussauda （3.5%）、传统/草药止咳糖浆（2.4%）和姜黄（2.2%）的使用频率较低。 PLS-SEM 表明，“经验”似乎是影响使用 COVID-19 家庭疗法的决定的核心内生变量。这种关系由“安全”、“来源”和“意见”调节，它们对结果有重大贡献，占所解释方差的 98.2%（R 方 = 0.982）。