Patients’ beliefs about treatment influence treatment preferences, adherence, and outcomes (Horne, R. 1999).
Prior to addressing the influence of health beliefs, it is good to understand the alternative options available to seek medical treatment. Who, why, and when do patient seeks the different approaches to curing their ailments. Their self-beliefs, cultural, demographics such living condition, lifestyle, literacy, age, race and even religion may affect the patient’s decision making.
Wang, W. et al, researched into perceptions of people’s decision for their illness. It led them to investigate how their subjects derive their decision to pick the type of treatment; western or other alternative medicine that could play a part on the way they
Prior to addressing the influence of health beliefs, it is good to understand the alternative options available to seek medical treatment. Who, why, and when do patient seeks the different approaches to curing their ailments. Their self-beliefs, cultural, demographics such living condition, lifestyle, literacy, age, race and even religion may affect the patient’s decision making.
Wang, W. et al, researched into perceptions of people’s decision for their illness. It led them to investigate how their subjects derive their decision to pick the type of treatment; western or other alternative medicine that could play a part on the way they