نگرش و عملكرد عشاير كرمان با توجه به اعتقادات رايج آنها نسبت به بهداشت و درمان در سال 1382

Attitude and practice of Kerman tribes regarding their current beliefs about health issues - 2003

Introduction: Tribes life style, specially the migrant ones and their attitudes and actionsdue to their current beliefabout health issues have madethem deprived of the allocated sources of health care. It should be mentioned thar continuation of this situation not only contradicts the definition of "fairness" in health system but also is one of the significant issues effecting health care standards of our community, This research was carriedout on Kermantribes with theaim of investigating their attitudes and function toward health issuesaccording to theireurrent believes. Methods: In this cross-sectional research, 75 variables regarding the altitudes and functions of Kennan tribes Were observed and interviewed based on valid and reliable questionnaires according to their current beliefs about health care issues. Among44 tribes and 59 regions, 2681 subjects from migrant, centralized and semicentralized tribes participated ill this research and the sampling method was done with various procedures in different territories. Data analysis was done by SPSS software and Chi-square test. Results: In this research 1969 (73.4%) males and 712 (26.6%) females with mean age of 46.36±l6.41 and mean family size of 6.64±25 were investigated. Migrant tribes constituted 48% of [he sample group and centralized and semi-centralized groups constituted the rest. Amongall participants. 1478cases (55.1%) believed in the therapeutic effect of sleeping in domestic animals skins and 909 persons (33.9%) believed in linn and 64% of themconsidered writers of prayers as factors of treatment. According to the results, 90% had no knowledge about the importance of on-time vaccination. TotaJJ y, in 94% of the subjects, me attitudes aud function of tribes was poor and originated from their current beliefs. This situationwas significantly higher in migrant tribes (P<0.05). Conclusion: Traditionally, current beliefs about health care among tribes, effect health care standards and their health. Generally, providing mobile bealth care centers especially mobile schools and research centers and as a whole all possible facilities are highly recommended in order to solve the problems changing tribes, current believes and their knowledge , attitude and function improvement.