Assessment of Undergraduate Nursing Students' Understanding of Herbal Medicines and Herb-Drug Interactions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

19 June 2024 : Clinical Research

Kholoud Alharbi^1ABCDEFG*, Safiya Salem Bakarman^2ABCDEFG, Wajid Syed^3ABCDEFG, Adel Bashatah^1ABCDEFG

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.944352

Med Sci Monit 2024; 30:e944352

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Table 4 Correlations between knowledge scores and undergraduate nursing students’ characteristics (n=147).

Nursing undergraduates characteristics	Knowledge score of Herbal medicines (HMs)

	Mean (SD)	SE	t-value*	F-value	p-value


Male	3.42 (1.28)		0.582		0.290^*
Female	3.18 (1.66)


19–20	3.35 (1.24)	0.352	--------	0.538	0.657^**
21–25	3.43 (1.30)	0.159
26–30	3.36 (1.53)	0.165


Second year	3.28 (1.20)	0.205	--------	1.320	0.270^**
Third year	3.30 (1.39)	0.181
Fourth-year	3.69 (1.28)	0.177


Saudi	3.45 (1.27)	----	−2.353	-----	0.150^*
Non-Saudi	2.28 (1.49)


Yes	3.50 (1.30)	----	1.516		0.188^*
No	3.12 (1.16)


Yes	3.75 (1.00)	----	4.635	---	<0.0001^*
No	2.76 (1.54)


Yes	3.65 (1.08)	---	3.800	--	<0.0001^*
No	2.78 (1.58)
SD – standard deviation; SE – standard error; ^* I-test; ^** ANOVA.

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