Traditional Healers in the Treatment of Common Mental Disorders in South Africa
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Traditional healers in the treatment of common mental disorders in South Africa.
There are few population-level insights into the use of traditional healers and other forms of alternative care for the treatment of common mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the extent to which alternative practitioners are consulted, and predictors of traditional healer visits. A national survey was conducted with 3651 adult South Africans between 2002 and 2004, using the Wor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181a61dbc