Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat human and livestock ailments in Addi Arkay district, northwest Ethiopia

Misganaw, Worku; Masresha, Getinet; Alemu, Asmamaw; Lulekal, Ermias

doi:10.1186/s13002-025-00775-3

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Table 1 Medicinal plant knowledge of the informants in Addi Arkay district (n = 385)

From: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat human and livestock ailments in Addi Arkay district, northwest Ethiopia

Parameter	Informant categories	Number of informants (n)	Mean ${\pm}$ SD	F-statistic	p value
Socio-demographic parameters
Healing experience	Key Informants	30	20.93 $\pm$ 5.25	152.318	0.000*
Healing experience	General Informants	355	9.06 $\pm$ 5.04	152.318	0.000*
Gender	Men	229	11.45 $\pm$ 6.56	37.077	0.000*
Gender	Women	156	7.84 $\pm$ 4.16	37.077	0.000*
Age (Years)	20–39	166	6.82 $\pm$ 4.54^c	100.688	0.000*
	40–59	120	9.78 $\pm$ 4.72^b
	> = 60	99	15.55 $\pm$ 5.46^a
Education status	Illiterate (unable to read and write)	326	10.80 $\pm$ 6.03	44.243	0.000*
Education status	Literate (able to read and write)	59	5.47 $\pm$ 2.84	44.243	0.000*
Education level	1–6	26	7.12 $\pm$ 3.51^a	10.493	0.000*
	7–12	24	4.67 $\pm$ 1.05^b
	> 12	9	3.33 $\pm 0$.71^c
Marital status	Single	92	8.25 $\pm$ 5.77^ab	5.161	0.002*
	Married	283	10.66 $\pm$ 5.99^c
	Widowed	7	7.86 $\pm$ 1.95^ab
	Divorced	3	4.33 $\pm 0$.58^b
Ethnic background	Amhara	365	10.27 $\pm$ 6.00^a	8.291	0.000*
	Tigray	15	5.00 $\pm 1$.85^b
	Agew	5	4.20 $\pm 0$.84^c
Religion	Orthodox	357	10.36 ± 6.01	19.612	0.000*
Religion	Muslim	28	5.29 ± 2.68	19.612	0.000*
Socio-economic parameters
Occupation	Farmer	295	10.35 ± 6.03^a	7.467	0.000*
	Merchant	11	5.82 ± 1.78^b
	Employed (in a formal job)	17	3.65 ± 0.70^b
	Ascetics (Monk/nun)	56	11.045 ± 5.92^a
	Multiple occupations	6	8.00 ± 3.23^ab
Transport access	Accessible (road and car)	105	5.67 ± 2.58	93.776	0.000*
Transport access	Not accessible (nor road and car)	280	11.61 ± 6.08	93.776	0.000*
Income level	Poor (estimated annual income less than $1000)	270	10.96 ± 6.46^a	14.472	0.000*
	Medium (estimated annual income than $1000-$10,000)	89	8.26 ± 3.94^b
	Rich (estimated annual income greater than $10,000)	26	5.85 ± 2.54^c
Distance from town (km)	Less than 3 km	37	4.97 ± 1.94^c	13.806	0.000*
	3–5 km	25	7.68 ± 5.27^b
	6–8 km	45	9.38 ± 4.06^ab
	More than 8 km	278	10.96 ± 6.25^a

^*Shows a significant difference for the parameters at p < 0.05

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