Sharma Deepak B, Gupta Vidushi, Saxena Kanupriya, Shah Utkarsh M, Singh Uday Shankar
Department of Community Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad, Anand, Gujarat, India.
Department of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Aug 25;9(8):4298-4304. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_868_20. eCollection 2020 Aug.
Faith healing is a method of treating illnesses through the exercise of faith rather than medical methods. The current study was done with the objective to find out demographic variables of faith healers, various conditions for which the people approach them, various practices and processes used and to look for scope of integrated approach to healthcare with faith healers.
RHTC village was a sub center village of PHC Morad. Hence, for the study, all the villages which comes under PHC Morad were selected. The design of the study was a cross-sectional study.
The study was a cross sectional study where faith healers were interviewed based on a semi structured questionnaire comprising of both close and open-ended questions.
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Different reasons for which the persons usually came for ranged from supernatural possession, unemployment, family problems etc., and various different processes were used by these healers to solve the problems included giving charms and amulets, personal sacrifices like " and many others.
The study concludes that faith healers in many conditions and situations became the first point of contact as the faith of the community in these faith healers is deeply rooted.
信仰疗法是一种通过信仰而非医学方法来治疗疾病的方式。本研究旨在找出信仰治疗师的人口统计学变量、人们向他们求助的各种病症、所采用的各种做法和流程，并探寻与信仰治疗师进行综合医疗保健的途径。
RHTC村是莫拉德初级卫生保健中心下属的一个分中心村。因此，本研究选取了莫拉德初级卫生保健中心下辖的所有村庄。研究设计为横断面研究。
本研究为横断面研究，基于一份包含封闭式和开放式问题的半结构化问卷对信仰治疗师进行访谈。
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人们前来求助的不同原因包括超自然附身、失业、家庭问题等，这些治疗师采用了各种不同的方法来解决问题，包括给予符咒和护身符、进行“个人牺牲”等诸多方式。
研究得出结论，在许多情况下，信仰治疗师成为了首要接触点，因为社区对这些信仰治疗师的信任根深蒂固。
