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. 2011 Oct 2;9(1):94–104. doi: 10.4314/ajtcam.v9i1.14

Table 10.

Western Practitioners' evaluation of Traditional healing, faith healing or alternative medicine treatment outcomes (N =30)

Treatment outcome Traditional healing Herbalist Alternative
medicine
Biomedicine
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Major positive 1 (3.3) 1 (3.3) 20 (66.7)
Some positive 7 (23.3) 9 (30) 18 (60.0) 8 (26.7)
Neither 4 (13.3) 4 (13.3) 1 (3.3) 1 (3.3)
Some negative 3 (10) 3 (10) 3 (10) 1 (3.3)
Major negative 8 (26.7) 3 (10)
Don't know 5 (16.7) 10 (33.3) 7 (23.3)
Missing cases 2 (6.7)