| Hsiao FH |
------>authors3_c= ------>paper_class1=1 ------>Impact_Factor=0.917 ------>paper_class3=2 ------>paper_class2=1 ------>vol=55 ------>confirm_bywho=jenchent ------>insert_bywho=hsiaofei ------>Jurnal_Rank=27.3 ------>authors4_c= ------>comm_author=1 ------>patent_EDate=None ------>authors5_c= ------>publish_day=1 ------>paper_class2Letter=None ------>page2=67 ------>medlineContent= ------>unit=H0100 ------>insert_date=20051221 ------>iam=1 ------>update_date=None ------>author=??? ------>change_event=4 ------>ISSN= ------>authors_c= ------>score=500 ------>journal_name=Journal of Advanced Nursing ------>paper_name=Folk concepts of mental disorders among Chinese-Australian patients and their caregivers ------>confirm_date=20080523 ------>tch_id=091092 ------>pmid=16768740 ------>page1=58 ------>fullAbstract=AIM: This paper reports a study of (a) popular conceptions of mental illness throughout history, (b) how current social and cultural knowledge about mental illness influences Chinese-Australian patients~ and caregivers~ understanding of mental illness and the consequences of this for explaining and labelling patients~ problems. BACKGROUND: According to traditional Chinese cultural knowledge about health and illness, Chinese people believe that psychotic illness is the only type of mental illness, and that non-psychotic illness is a physical illness. Regarding patients~ problems as not being due to mental illness may result in delaying use of Western mental health services. METHODS: Data collection took place in 2001. Twenty-eight Chinese-Australian patients with mental illness and their caregivers were interviewed at home, drawing on Kleinman~s explanatory model and studies of cultural transmission. Interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed, and analysed for plots and themes. FINDINGS: Chinese-Australians combined traditional knowledge with Western medical knowledge to develop their own labels for various kinds of mental disorders, including ~mental illness~, ~physical illness~, ~normal problems of living~ and ~psychological problems~. As they learnt more about Western conceptions of psychology and psychiatry, their understanding of some disorders changed. What was previously ascribed to non-mental disorders was often re-labelled as ~mental illness~ or ~psychological problems~. CONCLUSION: Educational programmes aimed at introducing Chinese immigrants to counselling and other psychiatric services could be made more effective if designers gave greater consideration to Chinese understanding of mental illness. ------>tmu_sno=None ------>sno=12379 ------>authors2=Klimidis S ------>authors3=Minas H ------>authors4=Tan ES ------>authors5= ------>authors6= ------>authors6_c= ------>authors=Hsiao FH ------>delete_flag=0 ------>SCI_JNo=None ------>authors2_c= ------>publish_area=0 ------>updateTitle=Folk concepts of mental disorders among Chinese-Australian patients and their caregivers. ------>language=2 ------>check_flag=None ------>submit_date=None ------>country=None ------>no=1 ------>patent_SDate=None ------>update_bywho=None ------>publish_year=2006 ------>submit_flag=None ------>publish_month=7 |