Abstract The objective of this research was to identify those medicinal plants and functional foods that the population of Cusco, located in the Peruvian Andes, use as resources to cope with COVID-19 either for prevention or as an adjuvant to treatment with drugs. A descriptive, non-experimental and cross-sectional research was developed. The study population consisted of inhabitants over 20 and under 70 years of age, of both exes from the districts of Cusco, San Jeronimo, San Sebastian, Santiago and Wanchaq in the city of Cusco, Peru. A virtual survey was applied to 1747 inhabitants, for which a questionnaire was designed and elaborated with 07 items whose content was validated by 10 expert judges using Aiken’s V (Aiken’s V > 0.90). The data collected were exported to a database in Microsoft Excel. This research work was reviewed and approved by the Research Bioethics Committee o...

Abstract The objective of this research was to identify those medicinal plants and functional foods that the population of Cusco, located in the Peruvian Andes, use as resources to cope with COVID-19 either for prevention or as an adjuvant to treatment with drugs. A descriptive, non-experimental and cross-sectional research was developed. The study population consisted of inhabitants over 20 and under 70 years of age, of both exes from the districts of Cusco, San Jeronimo, San Sebastian, Santiago and Wanchaq in the city of Cusco, Peru. A virtual survey was applied to 1747 inhabitants, for which a questionnaire was designed and elaborated with 07 items whose content was validated by 10 expert judges using Aiken’s V (Aiken’s V > 0.90). The data collected were exported to a database in Microsoft Excel. This research work was reviewed and approved by the Research Bioethics Committee o...

Background The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru has led to people seeking alternative treat- ments as preventives and treatment options such as medicinal plants. This study aimed to assess factors associated with the use of medicinal plants as preventive or treatment of respiratory symptom related to COVID-19 during the pandemic in Cusco, Peru. Method A web-based cross-sectional study was conducted on general public (20- to 70-year-old) from August 31 to September 20, 2020. Data were collected using a structured question- naire via Google Forms, it consisted of an 11-item questionnaire that was developed and validated by expert judgment using Aiken’s V (Aiken’s V > 0.9). Both descriptive statistics and bivariate followed by multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess factors associated with the use of medicinal plants for COVID-19 prevention and respira...