Beliefs About the Cause of Schizophrenia Among Caregivers in Midwestern Nigeria.

IF 9 Q1 PSYCHIATRY
Mental Illness Pub Date : 2017-07-10 eCollection Date: 2017-03-22 DOI:10.4081/mi.2017.6983
Osayi Igberase, Esther Okogbenin
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Abstract

Schizophrenia is a devastating illness with a chronic and relapsing course. While Western countries may endorse, biological and psychosocial causes more commonly than supernatural causes, non-western cultures like Nigeria in contrast, tend to endorse supernatural causes. Belief in supernatural causes has been reported to have consequences for treatment seeking behavior. This study aimed to examine the causes of schizophrenia reported by family members of outpatients with schizophrenia in a neuropsychiatric hospital in Midwestern Nigeria. In this study, we recruited a convenient sample of 200 consecutive caregivers of patients visiting the outpatient department of the Psychiatric Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria. These primary caregivers were unpaid relatives who provided support to patients. The patients were service users who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of the International Classification of Disease [ICD-10; World Health Organization 1993] for schizophrenia and had been on treatment for at least two years. Majority (72.0%) of caregivers endorsed supernatural causes as most important in the etiology of schizophrenia, while 28.0% endorsed natural causes. Every participant without formal education endorsed supernatural attribution. In our study, it was evident that participants embraced multiple causal attributions for schizophrenia.

尼日利亚中西部看护者对精神分裂症病因的看法。
精神分裂症是一种具有慢性和反复病程的毁灭性疾病。虽然西方国家可能更认同生物和社会心理原因,而不是超自然原因,相反,非西方文化,如尼日利亚,倾向于认同超自然原因。据报道,对超自然原因的信仰会对寻求治疗的行为产生影响。本研究旨在调查尼日利亚中西部一家神经精神病院精神分裂症门诊患者家属报告的精神分裂症病因。在这项研究中,我们招募了一个方便的样本,200名连续访问尼日利亚贝宁市精神病院门诊部的患者的护理人员。这些主要照顾者是为病人提供支持的无薪亲属。患者均为符合国际疾病分类(ICD-10)诊断标准的服务使用者;世界卫生组织(1993年)诊断为精神分裂症,并接受了至少两年的治疗。大多数(72.0%)护理人员认为超自然原因是精神分裂症病因学中最重要的原因,而28.0%的护理人员认为自然原因是最重要的原因。每个没有受过正规教育的参与者都认同超自然现象。在我们的研究中,很明显,参与者接受了精神分裂症的多重因果归因。
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Mental Illness PSYCHIATRY-
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