Traditional Healers in South Africa, 2014-2015 (ICPSR 37030)
Version Date: May 4, 2018 View help for published
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Carolyn Marie Audet, Vanderbilt University. School of Medicine
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37030.v1
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This study contains data from a combination of 27 in-depth interviews and 133 surveys from a randomly-selected sample of traditional healers living and working in rural, northeastern South Africa. Participating healers were primarily female (77%), older in age (median: 58.0 years) with very little formal education (median: 3.7 years) and had practiced traditional medicine for many years (median: 17 years).
The interviews were conducted to identify treatment practices of mental, neurological, and substance abuse (MNS) disorders.
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Community
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Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify treatment practices of mental, neurological, and substance abuse (MNS) disorders by traditional healers in South Africa.
Study Design View help for Study Design
The study was conducted using two methods
- 27 in-depth interviews
- 133 surveys
From a random sample of registered traditional healers, the 27 interviews identified treatment practices for MNS disorders. Based on the in-depth interview results, quantitative surveys were administered to 133 randomly-selected registered healers. Only the de-identified quantitative survey results are available.
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Traditional healers were randomly selected from a known sample of 300 who were registered with a local traditional healer organization.
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Universe View help for Universe
Traditional healers in rural South Africa
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Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables
Variables were organized by healer information, type of illness treated, success of treatment, and treatment cost.
Response Rates View help for Response Rates
Response rate of 95%
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None
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2018-05-04
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2018-05-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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