Role of traditional healers in the pathway to care of patients with schizophrenia in Egypt.

Mona Ibrahim AwaadNesreen Mohsen IbrahimRehab Mohamed NaguibSherien Ahmed KhalilMahmoud ElhabibyZainab Khaled Mohamed

Published in: The International journal of social psychiatry (2020)

This study shows that a significant percentage of the patients suffering from schizophrenia prefer to approach faith healers first due to their own beliefs, society acceptance, affordability and easy accessibility.

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