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Aim: It was aimed to question the use of traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) applications to patients who applied to the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation outpatient clinic, and also to investigate whether a complaint of pain or a rheumatological disease would affect the use of these applications. Material and Methods: This study was carried out with 119 patients who applied to Düzce University Faculty of Medicine Research and Practice Hospital, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Polyclinic between November 2020 and April 2021 and agreed to participate in the study. As a data collection tool in the research; The questionnaire form, consisting of a total of 26 questions, was created by the researchers as a result of the literature review and was applied by face-to-face interview technique. Results: 63.6% of the participants had heard of any TCM applications and 17.8% had at least one of these applications. While the most common TCM applications among the participants who heard about TCM applications were acupuncture (74.7%), hiruidotherapy (73.3%) and cupping therapy (62.7%), the most common TCM applications among the participants who had TCM applications were cup therapy (71.4%), hiruidotherapy (23.8%) and phytotherapy (19%). When the relationship between the participants' gender, economic status, employment status, education status, marital status, pain complaint and duration, chronic disease, rheumatic diseases and the use of TCM methods was examined, a statistically significant difference was found between only chronic disease and fibromyalgia and their use of TCM methods (p<0.05). Conclusion: In this study, we found that the frequency of use of TCM applications increased in patients with an additional chronic disease and in patients with fibromyalgia.

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