Attitudes and beliefs regarding the use of herbs and supplementary medications with COVID-19: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

There is growing interest in using herbs and supplementary medications to treat and/or prevent COVID-19, evidenced by multiple reports exploring their effectiveness and safety. From a health psychology perspective, the desire to use herbs and supplementary medications to prevent and/or treat COVID-19 is a health behavior which is attributed to attitudes and beliefs. This systematic review critically appraised and synthesized the data from studies investigating these attitudes and beliefs.

Methods

EMBASE, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Cochrane (library), and WebOfScience were searched from inception to December 13, 2021 for studies investigating attitudes and beliefs on the use of herbs and supplementary medications to treat and/or prevent COVID-19.

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SUBMITTER: Soltani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9659320 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature