Usman Shah Hassan Bin, Atif Iffat, Nabeel Muhammad, Qureshi Hammad, Sadiq Subhan Mansoor, Ahmed Waqar, Raheem Abdul, Bukhari Haseeb
Department of Community Medicine.
Student, Yusra Medical and Dental College (YMDC), Islamabad, Pakistan.
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad. 2018 Apr-Jun;30(2):223-228.
With the passage of time, there has been a drastic increase in psychiatric disorders in past few decades across the world. Due to lack of education and awareness in the rural community, a majority of people still have strong misconceptions about the causation of psychiatric disorders and hence serve as a barrier for their medical treatment.
A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in the urban and rural areas of Rawalpindi district from March to August 2015, to find out the perception about treatment of psychiatric disorders among general public. Structured closed ended questionnaire was used to collect data from the participants and the results were analysed using SPSS. Chi square test was used to determine the association between categorical variables among urban and rural areas.
The finding of our study confirmed that people of urban areas tend to choose and seek treatment by psychiatrists more (74%) as compared to those living in rural area that tends to select and believe in methodology and treatment provided by faith healers (55%). Lack of education, poor socioeconomic status, high treatment cost and most importantly false beliefs were the major contributory factors for people of rural areas in their inclination towards faith healers.
The study concluded that most of the people of rural areas seek and trust the treatment by faith healers more as compared to psychiatrists. The importance of education and insight for the disorder cannot be denied for proper decision making about treatment choices.
随着时间的推移，在过去几十年里，全球精神疾病的发病率急剧上升。由于农村社区缺乏教育和认知，大多数人对精神疾病的病因仍有强烈的误解，因此成为他们接受治疗的障碍。
2015年3月至8月，在拉瓦尔品第区的城乡地区进行了一项比较横断面研究，以了解普通公众对精神疾病治疗的看法。使用结构化封闭式问卷从参与者那里收集数据，并使用SPSS对结果进行分析。卡方检验用于确定城乡地区分类变量之间的关联。
我们的研究结果证实，与农村地区倾向于选择并相信信仰治疗师提供的方法和治疗的人群（55%）相比，城市地区的人们更倾向于选择精神科医生并寻求其治疗（74%）。缺乏教育、社会经济地位低下、治疗费用高昂，以及最重要的错误观念，是农村地区人群倾向于信仰治疗师的主要促成因素。
该研究得出结论，与精神科医生相比，大多数农村地区的人更寻求并信任信仰治疗师的治疗。对于做出关于治疗选择的正确决策而言，教育和对疾病的认知的重要性不可否认。
