Respondents’ Level of Education, Knowledge, Awareness, and Acceptability of Blue Ternate (Clitoria ternatea) as Alternative Medicine

© 2021 Kantor Jurnal dan Publikasi UPI Article History: Received 30 Mar 2021 Revised 29 Jun 2021 Accepted 10 Aug 2021 Available online 20 Aug 2021 ____________________ Keyword: Acceptability, Awareness, Blue ternate, Lambayong, Medicine, Sultan Kudarat. Indonesian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Journal homepage: http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/ IJOMR/ Indonesian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 1(2) (2021) 337-340 Amity C. Abance, Shallom D. Anglacer, Freddierick James A. Soriano, Andy Glen C. Umadhay*, Amera C. Malaco, Adonis S. Besa Abance et al., Respondents’ Level of Education, Knowledge, Awareness, and Acceptability...| 338 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10. 17509/xxxx.vxix pISSN 2776-608X eISSN 2776-5970


INTRODUCTION
Herbal alternatives are used around the world to treat skin diseases and other illnesses (Verma & Singh, 2008;Gollen et al., 2018;Mukherjee et al., 2008). Herbs and plants are the oldest of the oldest companions of mankind. Still, they are used widely in the developing world, where pharmaceuticals are more readily available and therefore less expensive (Sellami et al., 2018;Pourjabali et al., 2017;Jamil et al., 2018).
Clitoria Ternatea, known as Blue Ternate, is used and prominent by a diverse array of researchers as a traditional remedy. Clitoria Ternatea is particularly used in medicine to support the body's cognitive functions, relieve fever, inflammation, and hypertension (Oguis, 2019;Gupta & Bhatia, 2010;Adisakwattana et al., 2012;Malik et al., 2011). This study was carried out to distinguish the acceptability of Clitoria ternatea (Blue Ternate) as alternative medicine among employees of the Local Government of Municipality of Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat province

METHODS
A formulated-based questionnaire checklist was used in this study to collect the required data. A systematic structure with a set of questions is designed to produce responses from the respondents. The Five-point Likert scale was prepared in which responders specify their level of agreement to a statement typically in five points. The following rating scales in Tables 1 and 2 were used to determine and interpret the level of awareness and acceptability of blue ternate as an alternative medicine among the government employees of Lambayong Sultan Kudarat, respectively. Tables 1 and 2 contain the scale that was used to determine the obtained mean.

Level of Awareness of the Government Employees in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat on Blue Ternate as an Alternative Medicine
The level of awareness of government employees in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat on Blue Ternatea as alternative medicine has been tested. Based on the analysis results, it has a mean of 3.04 and is interpreted as somewhat aware. It implies, that the government employees in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat are sometimes informed about the blue ternate and somewhat aware of it as alternative medicine.

Level of Acceptability of Blue Ternate as Alternative Medicine among the Government
Employees of Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat Table 4 presents the level of acceptability of government employees of Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat on Blue Ternate as alternative medicine, especially in hypertension, fever, and fatigue. Based on the results hypertension, fever, and fatigue has a mean of 3.31, 3.1, and 3.08, and are interpreted as somewhat aware, respectively. The computed grand mean is 3.16 and is interpreted as somewhat acceptable. This result implies that the government employees of Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat are sometimes informed and somewhat accepted Blue Ternatea as alternative medicine in hypertension, fever, and fatigue.

Relationship Between the Factors that Influence the Respondents and the Level of Acceptability of Blue Ternate
There is a significant relationship between the factors of influence to respondents and the level of acceptability of Blue Ternatea as alternative medicine as implied by the Pearson Correlation test result at a 5% level of significance (Sig.<0.05). It also implies a strong or high linear relationship with a Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.76. This is a very dependable relationship (Hechanova and Hechanova, 2012).

CONCLUSION
The results on the Level of Awareness of the Government Employees on Blue Ternate as an Alternative Medicine is interpreted as somewhat aware. The results imply that the government employees in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat are relatively informed and somehow accepted Blue Ternate as alternative medicine. These results imply that the factors that influenced most of the respondents to use Blue Ternatea were heard from someone. There is a significant relationship between the factors that influence respondents and the level of acceptability of Blue Ternatea as alternative medicine. Thus, the hypothesis that there is no significant between the two sources of variation is rejected.