Open AccessA biomedical educational intervention to change explanatory models of psychosis among community health workers in South India
Author(s) -
D Joel,
Manoranjitham Sathyaseelan,
R. Jayakaran,
Chellarani Vijayakumar,
S. Muthurathnam,
KS Jacob
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.31575
Subject(s) - indigenous , logistic regression , explanatory model , mental health , intervention (counseling) , medicine , psychosis , community health , psychiatry , gerontology , clinical psychology , psychology , nursing , public health , philosophy , epistemology , ecology , biology
Community health workers in developing countries commonly hold indigenous beliefs about mental illness which differ markedly from biomedical models.