Determination of usage of herbal products of patients who applied to psychiatry clinic

Determination of Usage of Herbal Products of Patients Who Applied to Psychiatry Clinic In order to determine the use of herbal products in the patients who applied to the psychiatry clinic, the descriptive research was performed with 303 individuals. A questionnaire was directed to individuals by face-to-face interview. Among the participants, 54.5% were married and 38.9% of them were high school graduates. The mean age of the participants was 40.14 ± 15.15. More than half of the males do not work (n = 66). Herbal products have the most routine use. Routine use was followed by obesity (17.2%) and insomnia (14.8%), respectively. The most commonly used form is herbal tea (96.6%). Most of the herbal products was supplied from herbalists. Patients mostly use herbal products with the recommendation of their relatives (54%). More than half of the patients had not investigated the herbal product before (59.1%). Information was obtained from the relatives / friends (39.5%) and from the internet (34.7%). The ratio of 41.5% of the participants use herbal product daily every day. The monthly cost of the herbal products used by 79% of the participants does not exceed 25 TL. The majority of the participants did not share the knowledge of the herbal product they used with the doctor (81%). The most widely used fresh product is walnut (73.6%). Cinnamon (29.7%), as a dry plant and linden (50.2%) as herbal tea are the most commonly used plants. The gel of Aloe vera has been used (8.9%). St. John's Wort has been used following maceration in oil (22.8%).