Table 5.
Suggested ways of collaboration among providers who expressed a wish to collaborate
| Responses from BHPs(n = 61) | Responses from THPs(n = 139) | ||
| How to collaborate | Frequencies (%) | How to collaborate | Frequencies (%) |
| Meetings/Workshops/Cross-visits | 23 (37.7) | Cross-referrals | 41 (29.4) |
| Learning about traditional medicine | 13 (21.3) | Work together | 35 (25.2) |
| Work together | 6 (9.8) | Collaboration/respect/recognition | 26 (18.7) |
| THPs refer to BMs | 6 (9.8) | Meetings/Workshops/Cross-visits | 15 (10.7) |
| Visit THPs | 5 (8.2) | Learning about biomedicine | 14 (10.0) |
| Refer patients to THPs | 4 (6.6) | Joint research programmes | 11 (7.9) |
| Train THPs | 3 (4.9) | Other | 9 (6.5) |
| Joint research programmes | 2 (3.7) | ||
| Cross-referrals | 2 (3.7) | ||
| Lobbying together for policy change | 2 (3.7) | ||
| Other | 4 (6.6) | ||
Because multiple responses were given, the sum of responses may be >100%