Patients' and healthcare professionals' perspectives on a community-based intervention for schizophrenia in Pakistan: A focus group study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the perceptions and experiences of schizophrenia from patients, their care givers, health care providers, spiritual and traditional healers to develop a community-based intervention for improving treatment adherence for people with schizophrenia in Pakistan.

Methods

This qualitative study involved four focus group discussions (FGD) with a total of 26 participants: patients and carers (n = 5), primary care staff (n = 7), medical technicians (n = 8) and traditional and spiritual healers (n = 6). The participants were selected using purposive sampling method. FGDs were audio-recorded and transcribed. A thematic analysis was applied to the data set.

Results

The themes identified were (i) Schizophrenia is not merely a biomedical problem: participants b

SUBMITTER: Khattak MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9423632 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature