Rapid ethnographic appraisal of community concepts of and responses to joint pain in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Musculoskeletal disorders, experienced as joint pain, are a significant global health problem, but little is known about how joint pain is categorised and understood in Tanzania. Understanding existing conceptualisations of and responses to joint pain is important to ensure both research and interventions are equitable and avoid biomedical imposition.

Methods

Rapid ethnographic appraisal was conducted in a periurban and rural community in Kilimanjaro, documenting language used to describe joint pain, ideas about causes, understandings of who experiences such pain, the impacts pain has and how people respond to it. We conducted 66 interviews with community leaders, traditional healers, community members and pharmacists.Photographs were taken and included in field

SUBMITTER: Msoka EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10831465 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature