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The Health Care Seeking Behavior of Schizophrenic Patients in 6 East Asian Areas

Bou-Yong Rhi

Kyoo-Seob Ha

Yong-Sik Kim

Yuji Sasaki

Derson Young

Tai-Hwang Woon

Lourna T.R. Laraya

Yang Yanchun

The patterns of health care seeking behavior of 1061 schizophrenics and the factors that affect the determination of the patterns were studied in 6 areas of 5 nations in east Asia: Hunan and Sichuan Provinces in China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The information was gathered through a structured questionnaire developed by the authors. The subjects generally favored psychiatry-oriented health care, but with frequent interruptions or combination with other types of managements. Most Japanese subjects sought care in western medicine, while subjects from Hunan, Sichuan and Korea alternated between western medicine and magicoreligious therapies or traditional herbal medicine. In the Philippines and Malaysia, the majority of the subjects sought magicoreligious therapies first, then later sought western psychiatric care. The choice of western psychiatric care was mostly influenced by the decision maker's knowledge and interpretation of the patient's illness. In determining the choice of management among various types of non- psychiatric management, cost, location, and societal attitudes played substantial roles as well as knowledge and interpretation.

Suggestions and opinions were discussed to improve health care services for schizophrenic patients in each community.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 41, No. 3, 190-209 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409504100304
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