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dc.contributor.authorOlatunde Olayinka Ayinde, Olawoye Fadahunsi, Lola Kola, Lucas O Malla, Solomon Nyame, Roselyne A Okoth, Alex Cohen, John Appiah-Poku, Caleb J Othieno, Soraya Seedat, Oye Gureje
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-09T10:31:05Z
dc.date.available2022-03-09T10:31:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/5021
dc.descriptionThe article can be accessed in full via URL:https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615211064370en_US
dc.description.abstractAs part of formative studies to design a program of collaborative care for persons with psychosis, we explored personal experience and lay attributions of illness as well as treatment among persons who had recently received care at traditional and faith healers’ (TFHs) facilities in three cultural groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. A purposive sample of 85 individuals in Ibadan (Nigeria), Kumasi (Ghana), and Nairobi (Kenya) were interviewed. Data was inductively explored for themes and analysis was informed by the Framework Method. Across the three sites, illness experiences featured suffering and disability in different life domains. Predominant causal attribution was supernatural, even when biological causation was also acknowledged. Prayer and rituals, steeped in traditional spiritual beliefs, were prominent both in traditional faith healing settings as well as those of Christianity and Islam. Concurrent or consecutive use of TFHs and conventional medical services was common. TFHs provided services that appear to meet the therapeutic goals of their patients even when harmful treatment practices were employed. Cultural and linguistic differences did not obscure the commonality of a core set of beliefs and practices across these three groups. This similarity of core worldviews across diverse cultural settings means that a collaborative approach designed in one cultural group would, with adaptations to reflect differences in context, be applicable in another cultural group. Studies of patients’ experience of illness and care are useful in designing and implementing collaborations between biomedical and TFH services as a way of scaling up services and improving the outcome of psychosis.en_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.subjectExperience of care, explanatory model, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, psychosisen_US
dc.titleExplanatory models, illness, and treatment experiences of patients with psychosis using the services of traditional and faith healers in three African countries: Similarities …en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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