Attitudes Toward Psychological Disorders and Alternative Medicine in Saudi Participants
ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 12 February 2021 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.577103 Attitudes Toward Psychological Disorders and Alternative Medicine in Saudi Participants Mohamed H. Alegiry 1†, Nahid H. Hajrah 1†, Nada A. Y Alzahrani 2, Hossam H. Shawki 3,4, Muhammadh Khan 1,2, Houda Zrelli 1,2, Ahmed Atef 1, Youngil Kim 5, Ibrahim A. Alsafari 6, Leila Arfaoui 7, Hesham F. Alharby 1, Abdulrahman S. Hajar 1, Hesham El-Seedi 8, Lekh Raj Juneja 5, Jamal S. M. Sabir 1,2 and Abdelfatteh El Omri 1,2*† 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2 Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 3 Department of Comparative and Experimental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, 4 National Gene Bank of Egypt (NGB), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt, 5 Food Business Promotion Division, ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan, 6 Department of Biology and Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Hafr Al Batin, Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia, 7 Clinical Nutrition Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 8 Pharmacognosy Group, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Biomedical Edited by: Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Wulf Rössler, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Background: This study was designed to investigate Saudis’ attitudes toward mental Reviewed by: distress and psychotropic medication, attribution of causes, expected side effects, and to Mansour Adam Mahmoud, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia analyze participants’ expectations toward alternative or complementary medicine using Emad Masuadi, aromatic and medicinal plants, through a survey.
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