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Cultural pathways to psychosis care: Patient and caregiver narratives from Puebla, Mexico

Authors: Sylvanna M Vargas


Affiliations

1 Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2 Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
3 Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
4 San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
5 Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
6 Universidad Anahuac-Puebla, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

Description

The current study used the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI) to explore patients' (n = 6) and caregivers' (n = 3) narratives about how they identified and sought care for psychosis. Participants were recruited from an outpatient clinic at the Hospital Psiquiátrico Dr. Rafael Serrano, a public psychiatric hospital in Puebla, Mexico. All participants consented to complete semi-structured interviews in Spanish. Thematic analyses were used to inductively identify common themes in...

Keywords: Mexicocultural scriptsillness narrativepsychosis


Links

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38470500/

DOI: 10.1177/13634615241233683