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Traditional healers for mental health care in Africa.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pathways to mental health services across local health systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from a systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
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- Traditional and religious healers in the pathway to care for people with mental disorders in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Pooled it
- COllaborative Shared care to IMprove Psychosis Outcome (COSIMPO): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2017Trial
- Opportunities for Digital Health to Support Early Psychosis Care in Ghana: Qualitative Study Among Patients, Caregivers, and Clinicians.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Embracing Pluralism: Rethinking Western Psychiatric Models for Equitable Global Mental Health.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2026Article
- Experiences and perspectives on traditional and faith healers' involvement in the care of people with severe mental health conditions in ethiopia: a scoping review.International journal of mental health systems · 2025Review
- Managing collaboration between Traditional and Western health practitioners in mental health care, Limpopo province, South Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
- "Trust in God, but tie your donkey": Holy water priest healers' views on collaboration with biomedical mental health services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Transcultural psychiatry · 2024Article
- "Trust in God, but tie your donkey": Holy water priest healers' views on collaboration with biomedical mental health services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Transcultural psychiatry · 2024Article
- Combining mHealth Technology and Pharmacotherapy to Improve Mental Health Outcomes and Reduce Human Rights Abuses in West Africa: Intervention Field Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- A response to criticism of the global mental health movement. How polarization can be overcome in theory and in west African social psychiatric practice.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Psychosocial health in adolescent unmarried motherhood in rural Uganda: Implications for community-based collaborative mental health education, and empowerment strategies in the prevention of depression and suicide.Transcultural psychiatry · 2023Article
- Indigenous mental healthcare and human rights abuses in Nigeria: The role of cultural syntonicity and stigmatization.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Espiritismo and Santeria: a gateway to child mental health services among Puerto Rican families?Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2022Article
- Transformative learning in the setting of religious healers: A case study of consultative mental health workshops with religious healers, Ethiopia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Becoming a Xhosa traditional healer: The calling, illness, conflict and belonging.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2021Article
- Mental health in Malawi.BJPsych international · 2020Article
- Health care use and treatment-seeking for depression symptoms in rural India: an exploratory cross-sectional analysis.BMC health services research · 2020Article
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