Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia.
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Authors | Shoesmith, Wendy Diana, Borhanuddin, Awang Faisal Bin Awang, Yong Pau Lin, Pauline, Abdullah, Ahmad Faris, Nordin, Norhayati, Giridharan, Beena, Forman, Dawn and Fyfe, Sue |
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Abstract | Abstract Background: A better understanding is needed about how people make decisions about help seeking. Materials: Focus group and individual interviews with patients, carers, healthcare staff, religious authorities, traditional healers and community members. Discussion: Four stages of help seeking were identified: (1) noticing symptoms and initial labelling, (2) collective decision-making, (3) spiritual diagnoses and treatment and (4) psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Conclusion: Spiritual diagnoses have the advantage of being less stigmatising, giving meaning to symptoms, and were seen to offer hope of cure rather than just symptom control. Patients and carers need help to integrate different explanatory models into a meaningful whole. |
Abstract Materials: Discussion: Conclusion: | |
Keywords | Interprofessional education; Pathways to care; Spiritual healing; Traditions; Psychiatric disorders; Qualitative research; Malasia |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | International Journal of Social Psychiatry |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 00207640 |
17412854 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764017739643 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622095 |
hdl:10545/622095 | |
Publication dates | 06 Nov 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 29 Jan 2018, 16:45 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to International Journal of Social Psychiatry |
Contributors | Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang, Curtin University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Heritage, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Curtin University, Malaysia, Miri, Malaysia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia |
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