Olugbile Olufemi, Zachariah N P, Isichei B
Department of Psychiatry, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, email
Department of Psychiatry, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Nigeria.
Int Psychiatry. 2007 Oct 1;4(4):83-84. eCollection 2007 Oct.
Many patients in Nigeria consult traditional healers before, or in parallel with, modern psychiatric services. Part of the attraction of traditional medicine for the populace, apart from its lower cost and easier accessibility, may lie in its 'cultural' explanatory concepts of the nature and course of mental disorder.
在尼日利亚,许多患者在寻求现代精神科服务之前或同时,也会咨询传统治疗师。除了成本较低和更容易获得之外,传统医学对民众具有吸引力的部分原因可能在于其对精神障碍的性质和病程的“文化”解释概念。