International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD) Volume 4 Issue 2, February 2020 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470 @ IJTSRD | Unique Paper ID – IJTSRD30044 | Volume – 4 | Issue – 2 | January-February 2020 Page 425 Integrative Health Care Shift- Benefits and Challenges among Health Care Professionals Dr. Pushpamala Ramaiah 1 , Dr. Sahar Mohammed Aly 2 , Dr. Afnan Abdulltif Albokhary 3 1 Professor, 2,3 Assistant Professor, 1,3 Obstetric & Gynaecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Umm Al Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 2 Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University, Egypt 2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Umm Al Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 3 Obstetric & Gynaecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Umm Al Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia ABSTRACT Nurses play an important role in supporting patients with any illness who often seek information regarding alternative therapy. Within their scope of practice, it is expected that nurses have sufficient knowledge about the safety and effective use of alternative therapies, and positive attitudes toward supporting patients who wish to use such therapies. An alternative therapy refers to the health treatments which go along with the medical care, and it is based on natural and traditional methods. It includes natural therapies, herbal medicines yoga, aromatherapy, batch flower medicines, spiritual therapies etc. They offer people the chance to try therapies outside of their standard medical care. These treatment methods are totally different from allopathic medical practices. An evaluative approach with one group pre-test, post-test design was used for this study. The study was conducted in selected rural areas of Tamilnadu. The samples comprised of 600 health professionals. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the samples. Data was collected using structured knowledge questionnaire before and after administering the structured health education program. The study proved their knowledge improved remarkably after administering the education. The findings of the study support the need for providing information to improve the knowledge of the health professionals regarding complementary therapies in the perspectives of integrating health care shift towards alternative therapies. So the findings have also proved that the information booklet was effective in terms of gain in knowledge scores. Keywords: Integrative health care shift, Alternative therapy, Complementary therapy, Health care professionals, structured education Program. How to cite this paper: Dr. Pushpamala Ramaiah | Dr. Sahar Mohammed Aly | Dr. Afnan Abdulltif Albokhary "Integrative Health Care Shift- Benefits and Challenges among Health Care Professionals" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2, February 2020, pp.425-428, URL: www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30044.pdf Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0) INTRODUCTION In a world of ever-increasing technology and machine controlled medical interventions people are beginning to feel the need for a natural touch to health and medicines. There the significance of complementary and alternative therapies is arising. Alternative medicine emphasizes in improving the quality of life, relieve treatment and disease related symptoms and promote the overall wellbeing of an individual. These include natural products, mind and body medicine, manipulative therapies and body-based practices, and other CTs and alternative medical systems. (2015). Study by Brewer 2019 et al suggests the need for further education on the nurse's role in CAM usage. Understanding the link between nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and treatment beliefs and their relationship to CAM usage provides direction for future educational interventions. Shorofi.S.A & Arbon, 2017, revealed that nurses generally believe not to have sufficient knowledge of CAM but are open to use CAM with patients. Nurses' positive attitude toward and personal use of CAM could be an indication that they are poised for further integration of evidence-based CAM into nursing practice to treat whole person. Nurses in Korea reported a lack of knowledge regarding CAM, moderate to high levels of perceived barriers to using CAM, and low levels of CAM practice in nursing. CAM practice in nursing was highly correlated with and affected by the participants' knowledge and clinical experience. Statement of the Problem: “Effectiveness of structured teaching program on assessing knowledge regarding alternative therapies among nurses working in the health care hospital.” Objective: To assess the health professionals knowledge on Alternative therapies relation to the benefits of therapies in primary health care. Perform structured health awareness program on alternative complementary therapies. To assess the effectiveness of the program after the education program and to compare their knowledge before and after the intervention. IJTSRD30044