dc.description.abstract | Traditional medicine is one of the treatment and care efforts in other ways
outside of medical science. The fact indicates that the two ways of health services,
both traditional treatment and modern medicine until now ii still have a place in the
community. The purpose of this study is to determine how public confidence in the
alternative treatment of bone fractures in which case studies on alternative treatment
of bone .fractures P.Gurusinga and Tawar Kem-Kem. This research is a qualitative
study that described the public trust in alternative treatment fractures using in-depth
interview method (depth interview). Informants in this study is using community
treatment services (a patient) in the treatment of P. Gurusinga and Tawar Kem-Kem,
selected with suitability and adequacy of the method as much as 10 ir,formants. My
research results showed that public confidence arose because the influence of five
indicators, among other things from people's knowledge of alternative treatment of
bone fractures, broken bones reputation alternative medicine, alternative medicine is
influenced by the .fracture, secu1ity and comfort in alternative medicine, and the last
one is a useful alternative trea(f'ent of fractures within the local community, where
the results knowledge informants about the treatment of bone opportunity is a result
of recommendations from the people closest and most informants felt uncomfortable
using alternative treatments and partly for the treated patients felt the lack of comfort
of staying in terms of facilities. All infoman say have a reputation in the treatment
either because based on what vi<twed or existing facts. And all informants also adhere
to the rules and taboos-taboos that exist in the alternative treatment of bone fractures
and to provide benefits in acco,:dance with what the informants are needed healing
that qffects the emergence of a belief in the treatment given and the desire to recover
from the informants. Start the emergence of public confidence in the use of traditional
medicine in dealing with their, health problems despite a complete and modern
medical treatment, became one• of great concern for the government to be able to
reconcile the traditional treatment with medical treatment. So that the side effects of
traditional medication errors car, be minimal. | en_US |