[Cultural perception of epilepsy in Senegal (Cap-Vert and river district) (author's transl)]

Med Trop (Mars). 1981 May-Jun;41(3):283-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The paper is the second part of a survey report about the social implications of epilepsy in Senegal. The study has been conducted by a team of four (2 nurses, 1 social worker and a resident of psychiatric hospital), visiting patients in remote countryside. At the occasion of these visits, enquiries were made among patients and their families, elders, notables, in order to draw a scheme of common perception of epilepsy, which is considered most frequently as a religious or magic mental affection.

MeSH terms

  • Cultural Characteristics*
  • Culture*
  • Epilepsy / psychology*
  • Epilepsy / therapy
  • Ethnicity / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Medicine, Traditional
  • Public Opinion*
  • Senegal
  • Social Adjustment
  • Spiritualism