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Traditional healing is widespread in Sudan and traditional healers are well respected by the community. This study aimed to assess the characteristics of visitors attending traditional healers, the reasons for visits, the frequency of visits, satisfaction with visits and advantages and disadvantages of visits. The results showed that children under ten years did not take part in visits; most of the visitors were between 21 and 40 years (61%) and were women (62%). Visitors were less educated compared to the general population in the area. The main reasons given for attending traditional healers were treatment (60%) and blessing (26%). Visitors did not mention any disadvantages to visiting traditional healers.
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Medicinas Tradicionais Africanas , Aceitação pelo Paciente de Cuidados de Saúde/estatística & dados numéricos , Adulto , Distribuição por Idade , Árabes/psicologia , Árabes/estatística & dados numéricos , Escolaridade , Feminino , Humanos , Islamismo/psicologia , Masculino , Aceitação pelo Paciente de Cuidados de Saúde/psicologia , Religião e Medicina , Distribuição por Sexo , Sudão , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Traditional healing is widespread in Sudan and traditional healers are well respected by the community. This study aimed to assess the characteristics of visitors attending traditional healers, the reasons for visits, the frequency of visits, satisfaction with visits and advantages and disadvantages of visits. The results showed that children under ten years did not take part in visits; most of the visitors were between 21 and 40 years [61%] and were women [62%]. Visitors were less educated compared to the general population in the area. The main reasons given for attending traditional healers were treatment [60%] and blessing [26%]. Visitors did not mention any disadvantages to visiting traditional healers
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Distribuição por Idade , Árabes , Escolaridade , Islamismo , Medicinas Tradicionais Africanas , Aceitação pelo Paciente de Cuidados de Saúde , Inquéritos e Questionários , Religião e Medicina , Distribuição por Sexo , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em SaúdeRESUMO
Patients with frontal and left posterior brain lesions have severe difficulties in arithmetical word problem solving. In the present study the origin of these difficulties is investigated from an information-processing perspective. Following this perspective the first stage in word problem solving consists of a translation of individual sentences to an internal representation. This translation process is examined in 30 frontal patients, 10 left posterior-injured patients, and 10 healthy controls with a recognition and a sentence-picture matching task. In addition, the relationship between sentence representation and arithmetical word problem solving is studied. The results suggest that error rates in the translation of different types of arithmetical word problem propositions differ substantially in our three groups. A relationship between translation skills and arithmetical word problem solving ability is also found.
