Care Seeking and Beliefs About the Cause of Mental Illness Among Nigerian Psychiatric Patients and Their Families

Objective:This study examined treatment seeking by 219 psychiatric patients at a teaching hospital in Kano, Nigeria. Methods:Patients or their families were interviewed about the types of mental health healers that patients saw before seeking conventional psychiatric treatment and beliefs about the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2012-06, Vol.63 (6), p.616-618
1. Verfasser:	Aghukwa, Chikaodiri Nkereuwem
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Attitude to Health - ethnology Biological and medical sciences Culture Faith Healing Families & family life Female Health care Humans Male Medical sciences Mental disorders Mental Disorders - psychology Nigeria Patient Acceptance of Health Care - ethnology Patients Psychiatry Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
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