2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia
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| originalfilename | CONSUMERS’ KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE TOWARD MEDICINAL PLANTS IN EAST COAST ECONOMIC REGION, MALAYSIA (MASTER_2019).pdf |
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| spelling | 15495 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=15495 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Bio-resources & Food Industry English application/pdf 1.5 Server storage Scanned document Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin UniSZA Private Access UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) 226 CONSUMERS’ KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE TOWARD MEDICINAL PLANTS IN EAST COAST ECONOMIC REGION, MALAYSIA (MASTER_2019).pdf Nurul Imanina Binti Kamal Bahri Copyright©PWB2025 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia Medicinal plants (MP) are commonly used by the local people as an alternative for health purposes, however the extent of consumer knowledge about the benefits of MP cannot be ascertained as there is a lack of social research being carried out to access the level of knowledge and poor transmission of knowledge about MP by verbal from one generation to another. Besides that, there is a lack of documentation of the traditional knowledge from regular consumer of MP and the consumption factors among people in this country. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of consumers towards MP and to classify the factors affecting the practice. Furthermore, this research is conducted to determine the association between demographic profiles and MP practice. A survey was carried out over 300 MP consumers at East Coast Economic Region (ECER) using self-administered questionnaire. The findings indicated that 52% of consumers are female, and most of the consumers are Islam and Malay in line with the major population of East Coast. The respondents consist of 67% from rural and urban (33%). The result from Chi Square analysis showed that education level and locality has significant relationship with the level of knowledge while marital status is significant towards practice. Factor Analysis had justified the items under knowledge and attitude as the factors towards practice of medicinal plants. There is also significant difference between the knowledge and attitude towards practice using Multiple Regression analysis. Pearson Correlation Analysis indicates moderate relationship of knowledge and practice whereas attitude and practice has a strong relationship. The consumers have good knowledge and positive attitude towards the practice of medicinal plants. The people shifting to natural by using medicinal plants. Therefore, it is a good approach if the information on medicinal plants in layman language for better understanding. Medicinal plants 2019-09-08 Dissertations, Academic Sila masukkan subject wajib Dissertations, Academic untuk semua tesis.. Terima kasih Medicinal Plants Consumer Knowledge Consumer Attitudes Thesis |
| spellingShingle | 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia |
| state | Terengganu |
| subject | Medicinal plants Dissertations, Academic |
| summary | Medicinal plants (MP) are commonly used by the local people as an alternative for health purposes, however the extent of consumer knowledge about the benefits of MP cannot be ascertained as there is a lack of social research being carried out to access the level of knowledge and poor transmission of knowledge about MP by verbal from one generation to another. Besides that, there is a lack of documentation of the traditional knowledge from regular consumer of MP and the consumption factors among people in this country. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of consumers towards MP and to classify the factors affecting the practice. Furthermore, this research is conducted to determine the association between demographic profiles and MP practice. A survey was carried out over 300 MP consumers at East Coast Economic Region (ECER) using self-administered questionnaire. The findings indicated that 52% of consumers are female, and most of the consumers are Islam and Malay in line with the major population of East Coast. The respondents consist of 67% from rural and urban (33%). The result from Chi Square analysis showed that education level and locality has significant relationship with the level of knowledge while marital status is significant towards practice. Factor Analysis had justified the items under knowledge and attitude as the factors towards practice of medicinal plants. There is also significant difference between the knowledge and attitude towards practice using Multiple Regression analysis. Pearson Correlation Analysis indicates moderate relationship of knowledge and practice whereas attitude and practice has a strong relationship. The consumers have good knowledge and positive attitude towards the practice of medicinal plants. The people shifting to natural by using medicinal plants. Therefore, it is a good approach if the information on medicinal plants in layman language for better understanding. |
| title | 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia |
| title_full | 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia |
| title_short | 2019_Consumers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Medicinal Plants in East Coast Economic Region, Malaysia |
| title_sort | 2019_consumers’ knowledge, attitude and practice toward medicinal plants in east coast economic region, malaysia |