Table 3.

Attitude and practice of study participants on traditional medicines in the communities of Debre Tabor Town, North Central Ethiopia, 2018.

Variables	Attributes	Number	Percent
Do you recommend the use of TM in the community?	Yes	133	33.1
	No	269	66.9
Do you believe that TMs are still accepted and available with an affordable cost in the community?	Yes	127	31.6
	No	275	68.4
Do you believe that breaking secrecy of TMs may lead to loss of its effectiveness?	Yes	214	53.2
	No	188	46.8
Do you support integration of MM with TM to improve healthcare coverage?	Yes	91	22.6
	No	311	77.4
Do you believe that TMs can cure some diseases that cannot be treated by MM?	Yes	203	50.5
	No	199	49.5
Do you think that if TMs are formulated in a modern dosage form, it will be good enough to treat diseases with an appropriate dose and route?	Yes	335	83.3
	No	67	16.7
Do you have plans to use TM in the future?	Yes	135	33.6
	No	267	66.4
Overall attitude of participants	Good attitude	158	39.3
	Poor attitude	244	60.7

TM = traditional medicine and MM = modern medicine. From the total of 402 study participants, 145 (36.1%) of the participants used traditional medicines in their lifetime and from these participants 41 (28.3%) encountered minor adverse effects (see Table 4).