慢性B型肝炎病患使用、不使用中醫藥及合併西醫藥者之特質與對中醫藥看法的討
黃秀梨
國立台灣大
台灣地區B型肝炎盛行率為15~20%,帶原率為世界之冠,故B型肝炎可視為國病。肝硬化、肝癌患者約有80% 以上為B型肝炎帶原者,而台灣每年約有5000人死於肝癌,4000人死於肝硬化,因此B型肝炎對台灣民眾的健康是一大威脅。
目前治療B型肝炎的方法,在西醫方面有免疫學療法、免疫預防法、及抗病毒藥物等。在中藥方劑治療則包括枳實梔鼓湯、丹梔逍遙散、甘露飲加味、蠶桑合劑、清葉天士方等。由於西醫藥療法對B型肝炎之療效並非十分明確,因此B型肝炎病患併用中、西醫藥療的情況相當普遍。但何種病患會傾向中醫藥治療,何類型的病患只會尋求西醫藥治療或合併中、西醫藥的治療,而使用中醫藥治療又以何種治療為最多,一般慢性B型肝炎病患對中醫藥治療的看法又是如何,至今在台灣仍未有系統性的瞭解使用中醫藥群的特質。有鑑於B型肝炎的高盛行率及民眾的高複向求醫行為,本研究將瞭解病患在慢性B型肝炎求治過程中選擇中醫藥、西醫藥或中西醫藥合併治療者的特質,其使用中醫藥的情況及對中醫藥治療慢性B型肝炎的看法,以作為日後發展慢性B型肝炎中醫治療時,掌握中醫藥非顧客群的參考。
本研究旨在了解慢性B型肝炎病接受中醫藥、西醫藥或合併中西醫藥治療者的特質及對中醫藥之看法,故將採敘述性研究,利用結構性問卷,進行橫斷式問卷調查,以臺大醫院、台北巿立中醫醫院、中國醫藥學院附設醫院中醫部及西醫部之慢性B型肝炎患者為研究對象,以了解慢性B型肝炎病患使用中醫藥、西醫藥或合併中西醫藥治療者的特質,使用中藥的現況及對中醫藥之看法。從而可掌握使用中醫藥目標人口群及非顧客群體的特質及對中醫藥的看法,有助日後中醫藥巿場的開拓及顧客群之掌握。
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Characteristics and attitudes of chronic Hepatitis-B patients using traditional Chinese and /or Western medicine
Hwang Shiow-Li
National Taiwan University
The prevalence of chronic viral hepatitis type B is as high as 15% to 20% in Taiwan. The hepatitis-B viral (HBV) antigen carrier rate here is higher than most of the other areas in the world. For all the patients with liver cirrhosis and/or hepatoma, which cause about 9000 deaths annually in Taiwan, over 80% are HBV antigen carriers. So hepatitis-B is an important health threat to people in Taiwan.
Both the western medicine and the traditional Chinese medicine have several treatments in treating chronic HBV patients, but their results are not generally prominent. Although patients using both of the treatments simultaneously seem to be common here, it lacks of unified standard for patient management and the treatment effect evaluation for the combined treatment. Moreover, the communication between the fields of western and traditional Chinese medicine is not very thorough; most of the patients receiving the combined treatment rely on try and error. In order to prevent the erratic
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