Collaboration Between Biomedical and Complementary and Alternative Care Providers

Barriers and Pathways

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4725114
AutoresAlberta S J Van Der Watt (0000-0002-9005-8948, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, autor de correspondencia), Gareth Nortje (0000-0002-2754-8047, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa), Lola Kola (0000-0003-0678-796X, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), John Appiah-Poku (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana), John Appiah‐poku (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Caleb Othieno (0000-0002-3646-7708, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya), Benjamin Harris (0000-0001-9124-6089, University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia), Bibilola D Oladeji (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), Bibilola Oladeji (0000-0001-5856-2100, University of Ibadan), Oluyomi Esan (0000-0003-0094-1946, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), Victor Makanjuola (0000-0001-7449-0506, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), Leshawndra N Price (0000-0003-2632-8605, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD), Soraya Seedat (0000-0002-5118-786X, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa), Oye Gureje (0000-0003-0094-5947, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
Año2017
Volumen27
Número14
Páginas2177-2188
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732317729342
PMID28901831
OpenAlexW2756120344
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas48

We examined the scope of collaborative care for persons with mental illness as implemented by traditional healers, faith healers, and biomedical care providers. We conducted semistructured focus group discussions in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria with traditional healers, faith healers, biomedical care providers, patients, and their caregivers. Transcribed data were thematically analyzed. A barrier to collaboration was distrust, influenced by factionalism, charlatanism, perceptions of superiority, limited roles, and responsibilities. Pathways to better collaboration were education, formal policy recognition and regulation, and acceptance of mutual responsibility. This study provides a novel cross-national insight into the perspectives of collaboration from four stakeholder groups. Collaboration was viewed as a means to reach their own goals, rooted in a deep sense of distrust and superiority. In the absence of openness, understanding, and respect for each other, efficient collaboration remains remote. The strongest foundation for mutual collaboration is a shared sense of responsibility for patient well-being

Distrust · Faith · Focus group · Openness to experience · Political science · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Sociology · Stakeholder · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Nursing · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology