How cultural taboos can affect mental healthcare: Nursing students may need support to challenge cultural misperceptions or unconscious bias about mental ill health.

  • Published In: Mental Health Practice, 2024, v. 27, n. 1. P. 16 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Obimah, Emmanuel 3 of 3

Abstract

Growing up in a rural village in Nigeria, I thought of mental illness as a disease to be dreaded. Mental health conditions are often highly stigmatised in Africa and other developing countries, with understanding and attitudes influenced by traditional beliefs that mental ill health has supernatural causes and should be feared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Mental Health Practice. 2024/01, Vol. 27, Issue 1, p16
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:1465-8720
  • DOI:10.7748/mhp.27.1.16.s9
  • Accession Number:174684110
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