Cultural beliefs

Concerns about psychotropic side effects, which can vary cross-culturally, often lead to premature cessation of psychotropics. This may be related to different propensities for and values placed on somatic experiences in different cultures. Transcultural research indicates that patients from non-Western cultures are more likely to present with predominantly somatic symptoms of psychiatric disorders (Ng, 1997 Parker, Gladstone 8c Chee, 2001), as cultural explanatory models and social demands may serve to bias information processing in the various domains of subjective experience (Angel 8c Thoits, 1987). Several studies have shown that the perception and reporting of side effects are influenced by cultural beliefs... 

Running targeted public education campaigns, which take into account cultural beliefs and the influence of social factors. Education about the use of medicines may be introduced into the health education component of school curricula or into adult education programmes, such as literacy courses. 

The Jivaro warrior is able to benefit from the appearance in his Yage dream of these spirit forms because of a whole background of mythological and cultural beliefs. When he meets the spirits, the "Old Ones," he is not surprised or horrified, as we might be, for he is familiar from childhood with the spirit mythology. The tribe has two mythic ancestors both are warriors, who give advice in matters of war. Most of the other spirits take the form of animal demons, mainly of three categories. 

DANO (Damage) Brujeria (witchcraft), mal puesto (set evil), maldad (wickedness), hechizo (bewitchment), posesidn (possession). Unspecific (16.17%) Cultural belief in witchcraft able to produce discomfort, injury, illness or damage to a victim of natural or supernatural procedures. 

Anthropology has made a unique contribution to our understanding. By studying its detailed documentation of the differences, as well as the similarities, between many cultures, we have a better chance to realize individually the relativity of many (if not most) of our cultural beliefs. Societies of intelligent people, people who have passed the basic test of surviving as a culture, have quite different beliefs about many of the things we hold to be obvious or sacred. Much that we hold to be obvious about the world, much that we consider sacred truths, could and should be called into question. 

This institutionalist perspective on politics and culture sheds light on the relation between broader cultural beliefs and practices on the one hand and institutional relations and policy outcomes on the other. The case of pharmaceutical regulation and medical care shows that there is no simple causal relationship between these two domains we cannot argue that because Germany has cultural belief X, it has institutions x or alternatively, because the United... 

States has institutions y, it has cultural belief Y. Yet in key instances, the cultural patterns exhibited in medical care in Germany differ from those of the United States in the same way that their institutions differ.6 In action—not least in the definition of the patient, care for the ill, and formal medical policy—there are tight reciprocal relationships between cultures and institutions. 

Cultural beliefs may define the interpretation of arousal experienced by a group. In several episodes of mass hysteria in Singapore factories, Malay females showed symptoms they attributed to possession by jin, or spirits (Chew et al. 1976 Phoon 1982). Treatment of these cases often required help from a bomoh, or medicine man, believed by the women to rule demons and exorcise spirits (Chew 1978). 

Finally, the social worker must be aware of mental health diagnoses and how individuals from different races and cultures may not fit into a specific therapeutic mold, and that traditions and beliefs can be misinter preted. As social workers, it is important to become more aware of cultural mores and expectations as well as the cultural influences that affect the diverse clientele that practitioners encounter. Social workers should be keenly aware that their own cultural beliefs can result in a client s being diagnosed incorrectly. 

It is essential to preserve the ethical values of respect and dignity for all clients and to incorporate the client s cultural context into the helping process. This may sometimes be complicated when clients are struggling with acculturation issues or they may not be in tune with how their cultural backgrounds influence their behaviors, symptoms, or approach to treatment. The importance of integrating the client s cultural beliefs and practices can be illustrated by an incident experienced by one of the authors on a recent trip to Poland. The author s aunt, who was suffering... 

It is also important to realize that many times clients may distrust a practitioner who looks or acts differently from them. Therefore, it is important to discuss cultural differences and be sure the social worker is aware of her/his own cultural beliefs and mores and how this may conflict with that of the client s. Unfortunately, in a hurried health care environment and in a society that does not always appreciate differences, this may be overlooked. The social worker can be a vital link in ensuring that culturally based ethnic practices are used and that clients maintain their right to integrate cultural practices as they seek to establish self-determination in regard to health and mental health treatments. 

Among the cultural artifacts that the Crusades brought back to Europe were the medicinal practices of Geber, Rhazes, and Avicenna and a cultural belief in the alchemical manifestation of metamorphosis—transmutation. Geber is actually a fourteenth-century name attributed to a number of works, some parts of which... 

Cultural beliefs can also influence who makes healthcare decisions for the family. In most cultures, women are typically responsible for managing the fam-... 

Determine if the patient has any barriers to taking medication safely such as allergies, physical handicaps, memoiy loss, cultural beliefs, and financial constraints. Also, learn if the patient has support from family, friends, and neighbors. Most importantly, be aware of the cost of medication prescribed to the... 

A healthcare provider should administer medication to a patient even if the patient s cultural beliefs disagree with receiving medication. 

The true placebo effect of treatment with a cough medicine is related to the patient s belief about the efficacy of the medicine (Evans 2003) and the meaning that the patient relates to the treatment (Moerman 2002). The degree of belief in the treatment will depend on many factors, such as the healer-patient interaction, cultural beliefs about traditional treatments, the environment in which the medicine is administered, the properties of the medicine, such as taste, colom and smell, advertising and claims made about the efficacy of the medicine, the brand name of the medicine, and side effects associated with treatment that may reinforce the belief of efficacy. This list of factors that may influence the true placebo effect is not exhaustive and it illustrates how difficult it is to properly control and standardise studies on the true placebo effect. 

Organizational cultural belief that it is acceptable to make safety-related component design and location decisions on cost-savings and marketing grounds. 

Irrespective of national boundaries or cultural beliefs, most people agree that SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING (Swb) is a reasonable condition to strive for. However, problems may arise due to different ideological definitions of this term. The definition used here implies a temporal factor but does not include going backwards in time to some romantic notion of the past. Rather, it implies that sustainable means going forward with repeatable improvements. Thus, such a state can be described as in 1 ... 

Second, like other ideologies at the core of cultural belief systems, the ideology of depoliticization in engineering education is likely very difficult to undermine. 

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