10.1002/(ISSN)2054-1058 NOP2 Nursing Open Nurs Open 2054-1058 2054-1058 10.1002/nop2.1754 NOP21754 NOP-2022-Nov-1918.R1 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE They patronize herbal medicine, coincidence or planned behaviour: A case of hypertensive patients in Tamale? Iddrisu et al. Iddrisu Mohammed 1 Doat Abdul Razak https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4273-5243 ardoat@cktutas.edu.gh * 2 Abdulai Abdul Malik 1 Wuni Abubakari https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9329-8368 1 3 Nursing and Midwifery Training College Tamale Ghana Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery CK Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences Navrongo Ghana Department of medicine for the elderly Cambridge University Hospital's NHS Foundation, Adddenrookes Hospital, Cambridge United Kingdom Cambridge United Kingdom Correspondence Abdul‐Razak Doat, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, CK Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Box 24 Navrongo, Upper East Region, Ghana. Email: ardoat@cktutas.edu.gh 14 04 2023 08 02 2023 26 11 2022 24 03 2023 © 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd © 2023 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2023 © 2023 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. Abstract Aim

This study assessed, if use of herbal medicine (HM) among hypertensive patients is coincidence or planned.

 Design

Cross‐sectional survey.

 Methods

The study used a cross‐sectional survey for collection of data from four (4) herbal medicine clinics in the Tamale metropolis in northern Ghana.

 Results

The final or overall regression model was significant at R2 = 0.350, F(7, 214) = 16.464, p < 0.001. No sociodemographic characteristic predicted herbal medicine use. Only religion and educational level were associated with herbal medicine use. Attitude (p = 0.002), subjective norms (p = 0.001) and behavioural intention (p = 0.000) significantly predicted HM use.

 Public contribution

Data were collected from respondents only after they had verbally given free and informed consent to take part in the study. The results of this study therefore showed that herbal medicine use among these patients is not coincidence but planned. Health professionals by this study should appreciate the effect of religion and educational background in their health education on Herbal Medicines.

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