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: Mexico; cultural scripts; illness narrative; psychosis;
Links
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38470500/
DOI: 10.1177/13634615241233683