Witchcraft and Biopsychosocial Causes of Mental Illness: Attitudes and Beliefs About Mental Illness Among Health Professionals in Five Countries.
J Nerv Ment Dis
; 204(3): 169-74, 2016 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-26745309
ABSTRACT
This study examines the intercorrelation of measures reflecting beliefs about and attitudes toward people with mental illness in a sample of health professionals (N = 902) from five countries Brazil, China, Ghana, Nigeria, and the United States, and, more specifically, the association of beliefs in supernatural as contrasted with biopsychosocial causes of mental illness. Factor analysis of a 43-item questionnaire identified four factors favoring a) socializing with people with mental illness; b) normalizing their roles in society; c) belief in supernatural causes of mental illness (e.g., witchcraft, curses); and d) belief in biopsychosocial causes of mental illness. Unexpectedly, a hypothesized negative association between belief in supernatural and biopsychosocial causation of mental illness was not found. Belief in the biopsychosocial causation was weakly associated with less stigmatized attitudes towards socializing and normalized roles.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Actitud del Personal de Salud
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Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud
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Hechicería
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Trastornos Mentales
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
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America do norte
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America do sul
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Asia
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Nerv Ment Dis
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Ghana