This study examines the relationship between health beliefs and the use of both prescribed medication and alternative healing agents among at least one year diagnosed hypertensives attending an hypertension out-patient clinic in a rural South African hospital. The sample included 33 men and 67 women, in the age range of 31 to 81 years, (M=60.7 years, SD=9.8 years). Main outcome measures include...

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to the blind, and an arm Avithered and useless for sixteen years suddenly became perfectly whole. Moreover, " we have seen cancers disappear within twenty minutes." We make bold to say at once that, whatever it was that disappeared, it was not cancer, and it is not surprising that these remarkable statements should have produced a large amount of newspaper correspondence from medical and scient...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among visitors to Faith Healers (FHs) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We also studied the sociodemographic profiles for these visitors, in addition to their past psychiatric history, reason(s) for seeking FH help, and past and current treatment experience with FHs. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study among the visitors (n=321...

BACKGROUND In this study, we compared the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the characteristics of those who either use or do not use faith healers (FHs) services. We also assessed the independent factors of study subjects associated with using FHs. METHODS This cross-sectional study compared those who use FHs (n = 383) with a control group of those who do not use them (i.e., shopping m...

AIMS To correlate complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in children with diabetes mellitus (DM) with DM control and other family or disease characteristics. METHODS Parents/guardians of children with DM were interviewed about demographics, clinical characteristics, CAM use, health care beliefs, psychosocial variables, and religious beliefs. The child's hemoglobin A1c (HgbA1c) value...

Received: 01-04-2015, Accepted 12-05-2015, Available Online 01-06-2015 Yüzüncü Yıl University, School of Medicine Basic Microbiology Dep., Van. Yüzüncü Yıl University, School of Medicine Dermatology Dep., Van. Yüzüncü Yıl University, School of Medicine Neurosurgery Dep., Van. *Corresponding Author: Huseyin Guducuoglu E-mail: [email protected] Believing (faith or hypnosis) impacts on the heali...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem in Zambia, despite considerable efforts to control and prevent it. With this study, we aim to understand how perceptions and cultural, social, economic, and organisational factors influence TB patients' pre-hospital delay and non-compliance with care provided by the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP). METHODS A mixed methods study...