Realidades terapéuticas alternativas en pacientes con covid-19 en la provincia de Tungurahua cantón Baños de Agua Santa comunidad Juive Chico

Abstract

Introduction: Covid-19 is an unknown disease for humanity that has produced social, cultural, economic and health impact. Not having a cure has prompted people to find different alternative therapies in order to heal or relieve their symptoms the use of medicinal plants has been more widely used in the course of this pandemic, since ancient times man and nature have had a close relationship. Objective: know the alternative therapeutic realities in the treatment of Covid-19 in patients in the province of Tungurahua, canton Baños, Juive Chico community. Methods: A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional, non-experimental study. A non-probabilistic sampling was carried out, with a confidence margin of 95%, with a total of 80 participants, simple random sampling was carried out. A TRAMIL model based survey was applied. The data collections were obtained through the application of Microsoft Forms and analyzed in the statistical program SPSS and the results will be presented in percentages. Results: In the demographic data, the female sex predominates with 55% where 53.75% are adult age between 27-59 years, of which 100% have some knowledge about what covid-19 is and its symptoms, 87.5% have used some type of alternative therapy and also the majority state that it is important to go to a doctor to receive conventional treatment. Conclusions: The population uses different types of alternative therapy as treatment for Covid-19, prevailing the use of medicinal plants, among the most used is eucalyptus sprays that have anti-inflammatory effects.