Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. 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...
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| author | Shoesmith, W. Borhanuddin, A. Yong Pau Lin, P. Abdullah, A. Nordin, N. Giridharan, Beena Forman, D. Fyfe, S. |
| author_facet | Shoesmith, W. Borhanuddin, A. Yong Pau Lin, P. Abdullah, A. Nordin, N. Giridharan, Beena Forman, D. Fyfe, S. |
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| description | © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. 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 symp toms, 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-658522018-03-29T09:09:25Z Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia Shoesmith, W. Borhanuddin, A. Yong Pau Lin, P. Abdullah, A. Nordin, N. Giridharan, Beena Forman, D. Fyfe, S. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. 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 symp toms, 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. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65852 10.1177/0020764017739643 Sage Publications Ltd. restricted |
| spellingShingle | Shoesmith, W. Borhanuddin, A. Yong Pau Lin, P. Abdullah, A. Nordin, N. Giridharan, Beena Forman, D. Fyfe, S. Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia |
| title | Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia |
| title_full | Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia |
| title_short | Reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in Sabah, Malaysia |
| title_sort | reactions to symptoms of mental disorder and help seeking in sabah, malaysia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65852 |