- Title
- Mental health care practitioners' perceptions of mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context
- Creator
- Lombo, Nocawa Philomina
- Subject
- Mental illness -- South Africa
- Subject
- Mental health personnel
- Subject
- Psychiatric nursing
- Subject
- Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology
- Subject
- Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:9997
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1179
- Identifier
- Mental illness -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Mental health personnel
- Identifier
- Psychiatric nursing
- Identifier
- Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology
- Identifier
- Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description
- This study sought to explore the perceptions of mental health care practitioners’ perceptions on mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context. A qualitative exploratory descriptive and contextual design was used for the study. A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select eight participants from Komani Hospital in Queenstown. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The services of an Independent Interviewer were used to avoid any bias as interviews took place where the researcher is employed. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and the data collected was analyzed according to Tesch’s eight steps of data analysis as described in Cresswell (1994:155). The researcher utilized services of an Independent Coder who verified the identified major themes. Four major themes emerged from the analysis of the interview: Mental health care practitioner’s perceptions of mental illness, perception of the causes of mental illness within the isiXhosa cultural context, mental health care practitioners’ views in the management and treatment of mental illness and suggestions put forward to improve the services to mental health care users. The major findings of this study were the lack of knowledge of culture of mental health care users. It is recommended that it would be proper if there could be co-operation between mental health care practitioners and traditional healers by working together as a team.
- Format
- vii, 92 leaves ; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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