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KMID : 0377619760300040479
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1976 Volume.30 No. 4 p.479 ~ p.485
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The Conception of Rural People Toward Mental Illness and Choice of Treatment
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Abstract
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For the purpose of investigating the conception of rural people toward the cause of mental illness and choice of treatment, the author investigated 200 rural people in individual informal interview. According to the data, the rate of somatic conception was highest in relation to the cause of mental illness.
This fact means that our culture has been-strongly influenced by the conception of herb-medicine which projects the cause of illness to the body organ.
The psychological conception also was high next to the somatic conception.
This conception, increased as the age becomes younger and educational level becomes higher.
Such fact means that the importance of psychological cause toward the mentally ill person has been gradually accepted by the rural people in the course of acculturation.
But, even though they have psychological orientation, it is far from depth psyc￢hological conception.
In the choice of treatment most of them do not accept. the efficacy of modern psychiatric treatment and have more emotional affinity to the herb-medicine, folk medicine or supernatural treatment.
The supernatural conception was lowest, which was contrast to the investigators expectation.
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