Abstract
Low- and middle-income countries (LAMIC) have enormous burden of psychotic disorders with prevalence of schizophrenia between 1.4 and 4.6 per 1,000 (Jablensky 2000). While the burden is very heavy, the resources available to treat them are very limited. “For example, per 100,000 population, Psychiatrists working in the mental health sector in the most populous developing countries of Asia and Africa i.e., India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ethiopia are 0.301, 0.185, 0.06 and 0.04 respectively” (World Health Organization 2011). A combination of limited access and cultural belief systems leads to many individuals’ first accessing help from complimentary or alternate practitioners or spiritual healers. Additionally, there is an inverse relationship between GDP and duration of untreated psychosis (Large et al. 2008), and duration of untreated psychosis is shown to be correlated with adverse outcomes of poorer response to treatment and increased disability (Farooq et al. 2009).
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Irfan, M., Stone, L., Husain, N., Phiri, P. (2016). Brief Intervention Models in Psychosis for Developing Countries (Asia and Africa). In: Pradhan, B., Pinninti, N., Rathod, S. (eds) Brief Interventions for Psychosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30521-9_12
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