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Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Nepal: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
, 2019 Despite extensive ethnographic and qualitative research on traditional healers in Nepal, the role of traditional healers in relation to mental health has not been synthesized.
Franz, Lauren +6 more
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Perceptions of Traditional Healing for Mental Illness in Rural Gujarat
Annals of Global Health, 2014 Background: Despite the significant toll of mental illness on the Indian population, resources for patients often are scarce, especially in rural areas.
Julie Schoonover +3 more
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017 Background In rural Kenya, traditional and faith healers provide an alternative pathway to health care, including mental health care. However, not much is known about the characteristics of the populations they serve.
Christine W. Musyimi +5 more
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, 2016 John Sung (Song Shangjie) was the premier Chinese evangelist of the twentieth century. He traveled further, spoke more often, and led more Chinese people to faith than any other person.
Ireland, Daryl R.
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Riven between faith and reason
Annals of Indian Psychiatry, 2017 Faith healing has been a silent topic in the sense that we as psychiatrists often cross our paths with faith-healers, and yet, we seem not to make much practical effort in understanding the psychological roots behind it. We often come across patients and
Elvin Lukose
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Seeking Help from Faith Healers among Iraqi Patients with Obsessive – Compulsive Disorder
مجلة كلية الطب, 2010 Background: Faith healing is common in Arab culture. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is linked to religious beliefs and this can affect its management as patients may seek help from faith healers rather than mental health professionals.
Nesif J. Al-Hemiary, Salih M. Al-Hasnawi
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Curationis, 2000 This study determined the perceived efficacy of various health care providers for the last illness episode patients had suffered. 104 African/Black participants (50 male and 54 female), chosen by quota sampling from the general public (urban population ...
K. Peltzer
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Curationis, 2002 Objective: To investigate the attitudes and knowledge of nurses towards traditional healing, faith healing and complementary therapies in the Northern Province in South Africa. Design: Survey of nurses. Setting: Registered professional nurses at health
K. Peltzer, L.B. Khoza
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Cultural beliefs and faith healing practices in patients with psychiatric illness [PDF]
Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 Background: Faith healing has been an accepted mode of treatment in different cultures. The people who conduct these practices are considered as faith healers. Many people still trust faith healing for treatment of mental illness which delays psychiatric
Lubna Kauser +2 more
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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 In this article, I call for an object-centered ethnography to illuminate the ontological multiplicity that marks the worlds of health and healing that people inhabit.
Abigail H. Neely
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