Traditional Treatment methods used by psychiatric patients seeking treatment from The University Psychiatric Unit, National Hospital Sri Lanka.
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2011-02-07
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Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo: PGIM.
Abstract
The subject of this study (N=405) were patients who sought psychiatric treatment at the Department of psychological medicine at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka over a period of 3 months.Traditional practitioners are consulted at some stage by many pshchiatric patients.Consulation of a traditional practitioner was significantly higher in among patients with low income and those with a psychtic disoder.There was no significant different in the age,sex,marital status,occupation and education levelbetween those who consulted and those who hadn't consulted a traditional practitioner.There was no significantdifference between the propotions of patients who delayed more than 6 months to seek psychiatric treatment in the group that sought traditional treatment initially and those who did not use it at any instance.
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Dissertation: MD (Psychiatry), Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo: PGIM.
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Mental disorders
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Karandawala,I, Traditional Treatment methods used by psychiatric patients seeking treatment from The University Psychiatric Unit, National Hospital Sri Lanka., Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo PGIM, 2011-02-07: 98p.