Bookshelf When we drink it, we contract worms, they twirl in the stomach and give our kids tik, tik [Stomach- ache, salivate and followed by vomiting,] [Male, Study Community # 5]. Simple statistics like frequency distribution, percentile were used. Qualitative content analysis was used. 1991;630:212-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb19590.x. Mishra SI, Hess J, Luce PH. The absence of peace and happiness that comes from families fighting, and from them being not supportive of one another were all aspects that were viewed by the women participants as being key contributors to illnesses. We will also share examples on how these common beliefs provide explanation as cause of illness and its implications in our genetic counseling profession. Almost all the focus group participants identified better food production as a contributor to health: We keep healthy when we produce enough food and have work to do. Two principal etiologies are identified: personalistic and naturalistic. Genetic counseling of the deaf. 93 0 obj
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Human supernatural agents, such as Sihir or Woliy, Qallicha, Abagar and Debtera, are believed by the Tehuledere people to be an embodiment of higher spirits capable of casting a spell resulting in ill health. Helman (1990) presentation of lay theories of illness causation identified four sites; individual patient, the natural An example cited in most of the focus groups was that of disrespecting elders, Abegar or Sheikh and a link to how that causes illnesses: If people anger the Abegar or sheik, they get hurt by the ones they offended. He attended St. Xaviers College, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal, to complete his Master of Science in Microbiology. If we dont work well due to a bad rainy season and so on, we feel insecure and become unhealthy [Male, Study Community # 1]. Anderson R. The efficacy of ethnomedicine: research methods in trouble. For the study communities, a culture of social trust was central to their identity, and they believed this was directly connected to the health of the body. What are the cultural theories of disease causation in nigeria Theories of disease causation..ppt 1. The views presented in the article are of the authors and do not necessarily express the views of the funding organization. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pains and health. Accordingly, people used to please the gods by prayers and offerings or used to resort to witchcraft to tame the devils. Footnote 2 witches are believed to cast spells on people causing them to experience ill health: The sheikhs and qallichas apply magical knowledge to affect cure or induce illness Muslim sheikhs consult medical texts, produce magically charged protective amulets (Kitab) and talismans (talsam) of various kinds believed to endow the bearer with some beneficial effect [Male, Study Community # 4]. The culture of a people is their identity as it affords them due recognition. The respondents in the present study perceived that supernatural forces were the most important cause of ill health. Familial ectrodactyly syndrome in a Nigerian child: a case report. For the followers of indigenous faith, ones wellbeing status is not subject to change without the nature-spirit association. A Descriptive and Phenomenological Exploration of the Spiritual Needs of Chinese Children Hospitalized with Cancer. Members of the study community believes that supernatural, natural and social elements are linked to ill-health causation. So if there is no peace at home, there will be no health [Female, Study Community # 4]. Springer Nature. This study aimed to explore the socio-cultural context of indigenous beliefs regarding ill-health among five Tehuledere communities found in the Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia. Health, religion, and meaning: a culture-centered study of Druze women. Permission to conduct the participant observation in the communities was provided by the heads of the health facilities. So if he is able to work well and come back home without any stress, he becomes healthy [Male, Study Community # 1]. Health education and care solutions found to be effective in one system may not work as well in other settings [32]; however, some of the lessons learned from this study may be applicable to other cultural contexts with similar beliefs. Epidemiological triad includes Environment, Agent & host. Mesfin H. Kahissay. I/C Epidemiology; Centre for Animal Disease Research He would not be able to have enough food, this affects his healthWeve become subject to Ke ijje Wode Afe Nuro (hand-to-mouth livelihood) [Male, Study Community # 3]. Cultural beliefs on disease causation in the Philippines: challenge and implications in genetic counseling. He carefully reflected on how the data collection process influenced his own perceptions, and how other people respond to him. They also articulated the role of natural causes and social relationships in maintaining good health. Personalistic Causes Mesfin H, Teferi G, Heather B. Wilson. BMC Public Health 17, 124 (2017). All seek to elucidate principles capable of explaining social inequalities in health, and all represent what I would term theories of disease distribution,24which presume but cannot be reduced to mechanism-oriented theories of disease causation. Another theory was that the kapre possessed the husband, . Due to restrictions set by the Addis Ababa University, College of Health Science Institutional Review Board, data are available upon request by contacting the corresponding author. Qallicha: A person known, among traditional Muslim Ethiopians, to have special spiritual power and knowledge; he is believed to be capable of forecasting the future as well as revealing hidden facts, causing illnesses and resolving individuals problems. The child becomes stunted due to his inability to have a linear growth. Issues identified with administration and bureaucratic frameworks dont fit well with indigenous ill-health beliefs. 1983. p. 155. Google Scholar. The characteristics of people who share a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage. J Hum Lact. Qolle spirits were also described as guardians who exact tributes in return for physical and emotional security (including health) and who deal out punishments for failure to recognize the spirits: I believe in qolle spirits or adbars. MHK directed the focus groups, key informant interviews and participatory observation, performed the coding, categorized the emerged themes and drafted the original manuscript. Unusual causes of emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance, Effect of the Gayatri Mantra Playing on Microbial Load in Room Air. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. This level of familiarity would have increased the comfort participants felt sharing with the researchers. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Social Research Methods. In clinical medicine we are confronted by a patient P with certain complaints, and eventually a diagnosis is reached because the clinical findings suggest that P has a certain disease D.Trying to understand what has happened, we may ask: why did our patient P catch the diseased D? Soc Sci Med. L. W. Feezer. Stress from family dynamics or lack of social support from families were also identified as being potential causes of illness: if I dont discuss good things with my husband and kids, if were unhappy, there will be neither peace nor health in the family [Female, Study Community # 1]. January 29, 2022 by Sagar Aryal The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. For example, Wadaja, a communal prayer ceremony, is a common rite practiced in Tehuluedere. As noted in other studies, effective primary care requires that all health care providers and policy makers take culture and traditional into account [20]. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. He has published more than 15 research articles and book chapters in international journals and well-renowned publishers. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. The five study communities, selected were: Gobeya, Godguadit, Bededo, Jari and Muti-Belg. In: Fox JP, Hall CE, Elveback LR, editors. These two ideas were fully appreciated . 1983;17(16):120511. If we see someone leave home at the wrong time, we say he is going to bring affliction [Male, Study Community # 4]. Epub 2022 Jan 25. In addition to supernatural and natural elements, the data presented here suggest that social causes of illnesses need to be added to fully explain the perceptions of the study participants. After their migration from the southern part of Ethiopia, before embracing Islam as their religion, the people of the Tehuledere region continued to make use of their indigenous Cushitic beliefs and practices [7]. They speak Amharic, Ethiopias official language. Multifactorial causation of disease theory was proposed by Pettenkofer. They were very similar to the focus group participants in their demographic characteristics. Cultural Competence in the Care of Muslim Patients and Their Families. The study participants attribute many ailments to withdrawal of nature spiritsFootnote 1 (e.g., qolle or quteb, wuqabi, awlia, zar and jinn) protection and wrath. The sample consisted of 21 participants, 11 females aged 19-61 years (Median 44 years) and 10 males aged 22-65 years (Median 52 years). Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Social, economic and biological factors interact to drive a vicious cycle of poverty and disease from which, for many people, there is no escape." In short, poverty is instrumental in cultivating conditions that allow disease to spread. NCI CPTC Antibody Characterization Program. The capital of the Woreda, Haik, is situated 430 kms away from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. PubMed In 1890 Robert Koch proposed specific criteria that should be met before concluding that a disease was caused by a particular bacterium. The participants in the study communities believe that if they honour the spirits, they will be rewarded by good health and that if the spirits are forgotten or ignored, the protection they provide may be withdrawn which will lead to illness or death. BMC Public Health Thousand Oaks: Sage; 2007. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. Many of the participants in the study specifically related poverty and lack of appropriate food to ill health. The results of this study were based on a sample of purposively selected participants who identified as individual from Tehuledere community. In addition to that, diseases may be communicable or non-communicable. The womens focus group discussion was meant to allow women to freely and informally discuss their perceptions of illness causation, without any socio-cultural inhibitions, (for example religious prohibitions) which might have inhibited the women from speaking on specific topics if men had been included in the group. 1). Made with by Sagar Aryal. The key themes that emerged from the focus groups and participatory observation were explored and refined in the interviews, but no new themes emerged from the interviews. Foster GM. Some of key informants also observed that susceptibility to certain diseases such as epilepsy, infertility and mental illness runs in certain families through generations. It was the golden age of bacteriology. This theme does not appear in Murdocks model. Culturally-based attitudes about seeking treatment and trusting traditional medicines and folk remedies are rooted in core belief systems about illness causation, i.e., naturalistic, Ayurvedic, biomedical, etc. Head of Epidemiology Division, Indian Veterinary Research Institute. The connection between ill-health and lying needs further exploration for indigenous groups like this. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan. The .gov means its official. This finding, especially the link between lying and ill health may be relatively unique to this cultural setting. 2022 Oct 14;19(20):13217. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013217. Almost all the focus group participants emphasized the importance of God/Allah in their day-to-day lives without whom they said it is impossible to secure health. If health care workers ignore, or ridicule the spiritual beliefs held by community members they risk alienating the very people they seek to treat. Accessibility The dominant frameworks argue that culture is a set of values, beliefs, and actions that are learned through interactions with others. A. PubMed Peterson DR. Witchcraft Beliefs In Diseases Causation And Health - Seeking Behaviour In Pregnancy Of Women In Calabar South - Nigeria. Miller addresses in a coherent and thoughtful way the problems faced by the Westerner who seeks to study African literature without colonizing that discourse. New York: Wiley; 1978. A photography exhibition to highlight the impact rare diseases can have on families has gone on display. A. Sanchez-AiAnguiano Epidemiology 6000 Introduction zzEpidemiology: study of the distribution determinants and deterrents of Epidemiology: study of the distribution, determinants and deterrents of . The common types of diseases in Nigeria are; Malaria Malaria is a risk for 97% of Nigeria's population. Chelle is represented by colorful small beads. Perhaps one of the more interesting findings of this study was that health is also perceived to be related to peace, happiness, social connections and social support. Keywords. When Western biomedical practitioners overlook, or scorn the supernatural convictions held by group individuals they risk distancing the very individuals they look to treat. The emphasis on culture in our genetic counseling training recognizes its crucial role in molding an individual's conceptualization of health, as well as other life aspects, especially since the Filipino culture is a mixture of indigenous as well as imported and borrowed elements. We found that the causes of ill-health were constructed and negotiated within the socio-cultural context of the study communities. As part of this endeavor, we will describe in this paper seven common Filipino cultural beliefs: namamana, lihi, sumpa, gaba, pasma, namaligno, and kaloob ng Diyos. For example, the qallicha Map of Tehuledere Woreda, South Wollo Zone, Amhara Regional State, North-eastern Ethiopia, 2014 [15]. Winkelman M. Culture and health: applying medical anthropology. We also found acts in violation of social taboos or moral injunction were thought to cause illness directly rather than through the mediation of a supernatural being. Coronado G, Chio-Lauri J, Cruz RD, Roman YM. Witchcraft beliefs in diseases causation and health-seeking behaviour in pregnancy of women in Calabar South-Nigeria . Epub 2022 Jan 7. Medicine finally shed the rags of dogma and superstition and put on the robes of scientific knowledge. GERM THEORY Germ theory: Microbes (germs) were found to be the cause for many known diseases. 2005;60:50113. Just as members of a society work together to fulfill a society's needs, culture exists to meet its members' social and personal needs. A settled man lives in peace and prevents himself from syphilis and gonorrhoea. 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