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Ida Susser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ancestral calling traditional Health Practitioner training and mental illness an ethnographic study from rural kwazulu natal south africa
Transcultural Psychiatry, 2020Co-Authors: Martine Van Der Zeijst, Wim Veling, Elliot Mqansa Makhathini, Ezra Susser, Jonathan K Burns, Hans W Hoek, Ida SusserAbstract:This qualitative ethnographic study complements an epidemiological study on first episode psychosis in Vulindlela, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It focuses on two themes that emerged from our data: (1) the calling of the ancestors to become a traditional Health Practitioner and (2) ukuthwasa, the training to become a traditional Health Practitioner. The purpose of this study is to describe the ancestral calling, and to explore whether ukuthwasa may help with the management of mental disturbances, including unusual perceptual experiences. We also provide a discussion of the changing sociopolitical context of healing in KwaZulu-Natal, as a background to our study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 (apprentice) traditional Health Practitioners, formal Health Practitioners, patients and relatives recruited through local traditional Health Practitioners and a Health care clinic. Our results show that the ancestral calling might announce itself with symptoms of mental illness including unusual perceptual experiences, for which some participants consider ukuthwasa as the only effective cure. We found indications that in some individuals successful completion of ukuthwasa might promote recovery from their illness and lead to a profession in which the unusual perceptual experiences become a legitimate and positively valued aspect. We suggest that - in this particular community today, which has been subject to several sociopolitical changes - ukuthwasa may be a culturally sanctioned healing process which moderates experiences that a Western psychiatric system might characterize as psychotic symptoms, providing some individuals with a lucrative and respected role in society.
Marie M Bismark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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correction to outcomes of notifications to Health Practitioner boards a retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 2018Co-Authors: Matthew J Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M BismarkAbstract:The original article [1] contains a major error whereby all rates in Table 2 are mistakenly presented as 50% of their true values; this error was caused by a miscalculation in annualising the original values that represented the rates.
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outcomes of notifications to Health Practitioner boards a retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 2016Co-Authors: Matthew J Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M BismarkAbstract:Background Medical boards and other Practitioner boards aim to protect the public from unsafe practice. Previous research has examined disciplinary actions against doctors, but other professions (e.g., nurses and midwives, dentists, psychologists, pharmacists) remain understudied. We sought to describe the outcomes of notifications of concern regarding the Health, performance, and conduct of Health Practitioners from ten professions in Australia and to identify factors associated with the imposition of restrictive actions.
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A step towards evidence-based regulation of Health Practitioners.
Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association, 2015Co-Authors: Marie M Bismark, Martin Fletcher, Matthew J Spittal, David M. StuddertAbstract:In 2010 Australia established a national registration and accreditation scheme, covering more than 620 000 Health Practitioners. The data held by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency is a remarkable platform for research aimed at improving Health Practitioner regulation, Health care quality and workforce planning.
Ron Paterson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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correction to outcomes of notifications to Health Practitioner boards a retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 2018Co-Authors: Matthew J Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M BismarkAbstract:The original article [1] contains a major error whereby all rates in Table 2 are mistakenly presented as 50% of their true values; this error was caused by a miscalculation in annualising the original values that represented the rates.
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outcomes of notifications to Health Practitioner boards a retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 2016Co-Authors: Matthew J Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M BismarkAbstract:Background Medical boards and other Practitioner boards aim to protect the public from unsafe practice. Previous research has examined disciplinary actions against doctors, but other professions (e.g., nurses and midwives, dentists, psychologists, pharmacists) remain understudied. We sought to describe the outcomes of notifications of concern regarding the Health, performance, and conduct of Health Practitioners from ten professions in Australia and to identify factors associated with the imposition of restrictive actions.
Matthew J Spittal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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correction to outcomes of notifications to Health Practitioner boards a retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 2018Co-Authors: Matthew J Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M BismarkAbstract:The original article [1] contains a major error whereby all rates in Table 2 are mistakenly presented as 50% of their true values; this error was caused by a miscalculation in annualising the original values that represented the rates.
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outcomes of notifications to Health Practitioner boards a retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 2016Co-Authors: Matthew J Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M BismarkAbstract:Background Medical boards and other Practitioner boards aim to protect the public from unsafe practice. Previous research has examined disciplinary actions against doctors, but other professions (e.g., nurses and midwives, dentists, psychologists, pharmacists) remain understudied. We sought to describe the outcomes of notifications of concern regarding the Health, performance, and conduct of Health Practitioners from ten professions in Australia and to identify factors associated with the imposition of restrictive actions.
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A step towards evidence-based regulation of Health Practitioners.
Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association, 2015Co-Authors: Marie M Bismark, Martin Fletcher, Matthew J Spittal, David M. StuddertAbstract:In 2010 Australia established a national registration and accreditation scheme, covering more than 620 000 Health Practitioners. The data held by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency is a remarkable platform for research aimed at improving Health Practitioner regulation, Health care quality and workforce planning.
Hans W Hoek - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ancestral calling traditional Health Practitioner training and mental illness an ethnographic study from rural kwazulu natal south africa
Transcultural Psychiatry, 2020Co-Authors: Martine Van Der Zeijst, Wim Veling, Elliot Mqansa Makhathini, Ezra Susser, Jonathan K Burns, Hans W Hoek, Ida SusserAbstract:This qualitative ethnographic study complements an epidemiological study on first episode psychosis in Vulindlela, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It focuses on two themes that emerged from our data: (1) the calling of the ancestors to become a traditional Health Practitioner and (2) ukuthwasa, the training to become a traditional Health Practitioner. The purpose of this study is to describe the ancestral calling, and to explore whether ukuthwasa may help with the management of mental disturbances, including unusual perceptual experiences. We also provide a discussion of the changing sociopolitical context of healing in KwaZulu-Natal, as a background to our study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 (apprentice) traditional Health Practitioners, formal Health Practitioners, patients and relatives recruited through local traditional Health Practitioners and a Health care clinic. Our results show that the ancestral calling might announce itself with symptoms of mental illness including unusual perceptual experiences, for which some participants consider ukuthwasa as the only effective cure. We found indications that in some individuals successful completion of ukuthwasa might promote recovery from their illness and lead to a profession in which the unusual perceptual experiences become a legitimate and positively valued aspect. We suggest that - in this particular community today, which has been subject to several sociopolitical changes - ukuthwasa may be a culturally sanctioned healing process which moderates experiences that a Western psychiatric system might characterize as psychotic symptoms, providing some individuals with a lucrative and respected role in society.
