Some socio-psychiatric attributes of patients utilizing the facilities of the traditional healers in the city of Ibadan

Odejide, A.O.; Sanda, A.O.; Olatawura, M.O.; Oyeneye, A.O.

Tropical and Geographical Medicine 30(1): 115-119

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0041-3232
PMID: 675821
Document Number: 135804
The socio-psychiatric attributes of 103 patients found with the traditional healers in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria are reported. The patients were from all shades of educational and social status. Almost all their in-patients were psychotics while the neurotics were treated as outpatients. The implications of these findings for collaboration between western trained physicians and traditional healers are discussed.

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