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Title: | Traditional treatment methods used by psychiatric patients seeking treatment from the University Psychiatric Unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka |
Authors: | Karandawala, I |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Citation: | MD ( Psychiatry) |
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 psychiatric patients. Consultation of a traditional practitioner was significantly higher in among patients with low income and those with a psychiatric disorder. There was no significant different in the age, sex, marital status ,occupation and education level between those who consulted and those who hadn't consulted a traditional practitioner. There was no significant difference between the proportions 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. |
URI: | http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/1033 |
Appears in Collections: | Masters Theses - Postgraduate Institute of Medicine |
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