fa بررسی آگاهی و نگرش بیماران بستری در بیمارستان ولی عصر (عج) و امام رضا (ع) بیرجند نسبت به داروهای گیاهی رایج در منطقه General پژوهشي Research Article Background and AimMedicine with herbs is one of oldest methods for treatment. It backs to 60000 years ago. Unfortunately, people and even sometimes experts familiar with herbs think that medical herbs, because of being natural, don't have any side effects. Increasing usage of herbal products caused to do an investigation with the aim of "evaluation patients' knowledge and attitude hospitalized in Vali-e-ASR and Emam Reza hospital toward common regional herbal medicines".   Materials and MethodsThis investigation is a descriptive -analytical study which has been conducted on 275 patients with more than 20 years old, Hospitalized in Valie Asr and Emam Reza Hospital. Sample was selected by convenient method and 95% confidence interval. Data was collected through a questionnaire including 3 partsdemographic information (7 items) knowledge evaluation (9 items) and attitude evaluation (10 items). Data was analyzed by SPSS and statistical tests t, X2 and analysis variance tests.   ResultsMean knowledge score in female and male was 2.36±8.65 and 2.77±7.96 respectively, and mean attitude score in female and male was 8.76±30.98 and 8.4±30.5. The knowledge score was higher in female and in people with academic education (P=0.01, P=0.02). Attitude score was higher in female and in married people (P=0.05, P=0.01)   Conclusion According to good attitude and high rates of using the herbal medicine, it is necessary to do systematic researches to examine their efficiency and effectiveness in the society, planning to standardize them and determining the position of this type of medicine in treatment of patients and academic education. Knowledge,Attitude,Herbal medicines 45 50 http://mcj.bums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-395&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Sima Kaheni سیما کاهنی 10031947532846004688 10031947532846004688 Yes Instructor, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences. Birjand, Iran. Email: sima@bums.ac.ir عضو هیات علمی دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی بیرجند. تلفن: 4443041-0561 پست الکترونیک: sima@bums.ac.ir Farokh Kaheni فرخ کاهنی 10031947532846004689 10031947532846004689 No Instructor, Faculty of Agronomy, Birjand University. Birjand, Iran عضو هیات علمی دانشکده کشاورزی دانشگاه بیرجند Fatemeh Zanganeh فاطمه زنگنه 10031947532846004690 10031947532846004690 No Nurse کارشناس پرستاری Maliheh Seidabadi ملیحه سیدآبادی 10031947532846004691 10031947532846004691 No Nurse کارشناس پرستاری Fatemeh Sabrai فاطمه صحرایی 10031947532846004692 10031947532846004692 No Nurse کارشناس پرستاری Samira Mohamadi سمیرا محمدی 10031947532846004693 10031947532846004693 No Nurse کارشناس پرستاری