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KMID : 0644120170300020093
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Journal of Oriental Gynecology
2017 Volume.30 No. 2 p.93 ~ p.106
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A Survey on Korean Medicine Doctors' Recognition and Clinical Fields of Treating Primary Dysmenorrhea for Developing Korean Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline for Dysmenorrhea
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Woo Hye-Lin
Ji Hae-Ri
Park Kyoung-Sun
Hwang Deok-Sang
Lee Chang-Hoon
Jang Jun-Bock
Lee Jin-Moo
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study is aimed to figure out Korean medicine doctors' recognition of Korean Medicine clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and clinical fields of treating primary dysmenorrhea before developing CPG for dysmenorrhea.
Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey targeting 515 Korean medicine doctors belonging to the Association of Korean Medicine by e-mail and analyzed the answers.
Results: 81.2% of the respondents knew the concepts and contents of CPG, and 98.7% agreed about the necessity of CPG. 94.2% were willing to use CPG for dysmenorrhea in learning and treating. Average number of patients visiting the respondents' clinics for dysmenorrhea was 3.9, the main age group was 20s (63.1%), and the treatments the patients given before were mostly Western treatments such as pain killers and hormonal drugs. The respondents answered that they diagnosed patients with dysmenorrhea mainly with pattern diagnosis (41.6%), and treated them with herbal medicine (39.2%), acupuncture (31.6%) and moxibustion (22.6%) for 2-3 months. They answered that the acupoint they use most was San yin jiao, and the prescription was Gui-zhi-fu-ling-wan, They answered that the field considered to need further study was decoction of herbal medicine most (27.4%), and the field considered to need insurance coverage was also decoction of herbal medicine most (40.2%).
Conclusions: We figured out Korean Medicine doctors' recognition of CPG, clinical diagnosis, treatment, cost for treating dysmenorrhea, and fields of clinical research and policy they required.
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KEYWORD
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Dysmenorrhea , Survey , Clinical Practice Guidelines
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