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    Analytical study of the diversity of medicine use and underlying disease based on the temperament of individuals in the community

  • Niki Vakili Zahir,1,* Vahideh Masoumi,2 Zahra Bahaaedin,3
    1. Tehran University of Medical Sciences
    2. Food and Drug Control Laboratories, National Food and Drug Organization, Tehran, Iran.
    3. Traditional Medicine Clinical Trial Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran


  • Introduction: Today, the medical world is facing a growing incidence of chronic diseases. In recent years, a person-centered medical approach to health care has emerged. Therefore, according to the individual characteristics, it is possible to take appropriate health and medical interventions for that person. Many holistic medical schools pay special attention to persons' differences with each other in the field of health, and most of their health care prescriptions are based on personal differences. According to the approach of focusing medical sciences on personalized medicine, the biological response of each person can be different from the other people and can be significant effect on the incidence and severity of the disease as well as the response to treatment. Traditional Iranian medicine categorizes many of the physical and mental differences of human societies in terms of "temperament".The balance of these mixtures harmonizes the organs of the body, which results in health. Depending on, it is possible a tendency to accept or reject a particular type of disease, or a difference in how one responds to a particular drug or stress. Thus, the influence of the individual characteristics in determining the type of response to environmental stress can be acknowledged; That is, different people may respond differently.
  • Methods: In this regard, a study was conducted based on the analysis of drug consumption patterns and underlying disease in people with their temperament. The object of this study was to identify the temperament patterns in the population and to determine the relationship between the use of medicine and health. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study and the statistical population of the study includes 300 healthy and sick people in Tehran. Demographic information questionnaire and temperament determination questionnaire to determine warmth, cold, wetness, and dryness of temperament were completed and the data were analyzed by chi-square test.
  • Results: As the findings and the level of significance of the K2 test show, there is no significant relationship between the two variables of medicine use status and different natures of individuals (P> 0.05). In addition, the degree of continuity of this relationship based on the Kramer coefficient is 0.179. This indicates that different groups without and with medicine use show relatively similar reactions to different temper. This study did not show a clear and significant relationship between healthy and unhealthy individuals and possible medicine use with their temperament.
  • Conclusion: Further studies with higher sample sizes in different climatic regions are suggested to further investigate the possibility of this relationship.
  • Keywords: Medicine- Disease- Temperament