Traditional healers' and biomedical practitioners' perceptions of collaborative mental healthcare in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review

B Green, E Colucci�- Transcultural psychiatry, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Access to mental healthcare in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is one of the
greatest challenges in public health today. One suggestion for improving accessibility is�…

Collaboration between biomedical and complementary and alternative care providers: barriers and pathways

ASJ Van der Watt, G Nortje, L Kola…�- Qualitative health�…, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined the scope of collaborative care for persons with mental illness as
implemented by traditional healers, faith healers, and biomedical care providers. We�…

'Whether you like it or not people with mental problems are going to go to them': a qualitative exploration into the widespread use of traditional and faith healers in the�…

K Ae-Ngibise, S Cooper, E Adiibokah…�- International review of�…, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Limited research has been conducted to explore the factors that support or obstruct
collaboration between traditional healers and public sector mental health services. The first�…

Does the evidence support collaboration between psychiatry and traditional healers? Findings from three South African studies

BA Robertson�- African Journal of Psychiatry, 2006 - ajol.info
It is estimated that 70% of South Africans consult traditional healers, who include diviners,
herbalists, faith healers and traditional birth attendants. Calls from the new democratic South�…

Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services

V Campbell-Hall, I Petersen, A Bhana…�- Transcultural�…, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The majority of the black African population in South Africa utilize both traditional and public
sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. There is a need to develop models�…

[HTML][HTML] We are like co-wives”: Traditional healers' views on collaborating with the formal Child and Adolescent Mental Health System in Uganda

A Akol, KM Moland, JN Babirye…�- BMC health services�…, 2018 - Springer
Background Early identification and management of mental illness in childhood and
adolescence helps to avert debilitating mental illness in adulthood but the attention given to�…

Effect of collaborative care between traditional and faith healers and primary health-care workers on psychosis outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana (COSIMPO): a cluster�…

O Gureje, J Appiah-Poku, T Bello, L Kola, R Araya…�- The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Traditional and faith healers (TFH) provide care to a large number of people
with psychosis in many sub-Saharan African countries but they practise outside the formal�…

Traditional healers and mental illness in Uganda

E Ovuga, J Boardman, EGAO Oluka�- Psychiatric Bulletin, 1999 - cambridge.org
Aims and methodA cross-sectional, interview survey of the beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and
practice towards mental illness of 29 traditional healers in the Pallisa district of Uganda was�…

Traditional healer attitudes and beliefs regarding referral of the mentally ill to Western doctors in South Africa

K Sorsdahl, DJ Stein, AJ Flisher�- Transcultural Psychiatry, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on data collected from 3 focus groups with 24 traditional healers, the aim of this
qualitative study was to use the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to gain�…

Implications of healing power and positioning for collaboration between formal mental health services and traditional/alternative medicine: the case of Ghana

L Kpobi, L Swartz�- Global health action, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Many current debates about global mental health have increasingly called for
collaboration between biomedical and traditional medical health systems. Despite these�…