“…Elders identified increased access to adequate maternal care, health promotion and education, community support, and supernatural assistance from a deity as solutions for increasing use of formal maternal care and reducing maternal mortality rates. …”
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“…RESULTS: The extraction of the codes resulted in three main categories: (1)the short-term consequences, consisting of the sub-categories of individual and social consequences, (2) the long-term consequences, consisting of the sub-categories of psychological and physical consequences, high-risk behaviors, severely decayed memory and changes in the eating pattern, and (3) hallucinations and delusions including the sub-categories of visual and auditory hallucinations, persecutory delusions and delusion of having supernatural power. CONCLUSION: Regular methamphetamine use may have serious adverse effects on the overall health of individuals. …”
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“…Majority of the respondents described that mental illness was due to supernatural causes. Stigma and lack of awareness about where treatment is available were barriers to seeking appropriate care.…”
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“…Culture factors (e.g., Collectivism, Confucianism, face concern and familism, religion and supernatural beliefs) contributed to people’s stigmatizing behaviors and attitudes toward persons with mental illness, their relatives and mental health professionals. …”
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“…People overwhelmingly attributed symptoms and transmission of brucellosis in livestock to infection with trypanosomiasis and to supernatural reasons instead. In the community, consumption of raw milk was valued and handling of aborted material was not considered a risk for infection. …”
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“…In the purpose of identifying inhibitors targeting Papain-Like Proteases (PLpro) we initiated a high throughput virtual screening (HTVS) protocol using a SuperNatural Database. The XP docking results revealed that two compounds SN00334175 and SN00162745 exhibited docking scores of -10.58 kcal/mol and -9.93 kcal/mol respectively. …”
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“…RESULTS: The main category of risk factors, which emerged from the lay participants’ data analysis, were “unhealthy lifestyle and habits” , “hormonal influences”, “environmental exposures”, “Individual susceptibility “and “belief in supernatural powers”. The experts had similar perspectives for certain risk factors, yet not for all. …”
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“…None of the participants attributed PGD symptoms to supernatural causes. Descriptive analyses of responses on the IPQ-R indicated that participants predominantly attributed PGD symptoms to psychological causes. …”
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“…RESULTS: Participants shared their experiences about parental readiness for resuscitation of their child in four categories: awareness (acceptance of resuscitation and its consequences; providing information about the child’s current condition and prognosis), chaos in providing information (defect of responsibility in informing; provide selective protection of information; hardness in obtaining information), providing situational information (honest information on the border of hope and hopeless; providing information with apathy; providing information as individual; dualism in blaming; assurance to parents; presence of parents to better understand the child’s situation) and psychological and spiritual requirements (reliance on supernatural power; need for access to a psychologist; sharing emotions; collecting mementos). …”
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“…We observed an appreciation from the study participants that malaria can effectively be treated by Conventional Medicine (CM) while TM was preferred to treat measles and diseases believed to be associated with supernatural etiology such as witchcraft, evil spirit or breaching cultural taboos. …”
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“…Life events were the most commonly identified causes of depression, with no mention of spiritual, supernatural or biological attribution as possible causes. …”
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“…RESULTS: Discussion: Lot of communities still has immense stigma against homosexual orientation, at times upto extent to consider it to be some mental illness or supernatural interference. This leads to severe psychological trauma to the person and gives rise to inner conflicts in accepting the true self. …”
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“…In all, 78 (58.2%), 19 (14.2%) and 36 (26.9%) of the healthcare workers were of the opinion that the etiology of childhood autism can be explained by natural, preternatural and supernatural causes, respectively. One (0.7%) of the healthcare workers was unsure of the explanation of the etiology. …”
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“…Most of the respondents claimed that mental illnesses were caused by supernatural factors. In contrast to their thoughts about the causes of mental illnesses however, most of the respondents believed that mental illnesses could be cured with biomedical treatment. …”
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“…After due informed consent was taken, a semi-structured proforma was administered for socio-demographic profile, illness details, causative beliefs, and information on help seeking. RESULTS: Supernatural forces were held responsible by 40% of the Bilaspur sample in contrast to 8% in New Delhi sample. …”
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“…Mistaken beliefs commonly held by the study participants regarding the causes of infertility were Djinns and supernatural causes (58.8%), black magic (67.5%), intrauterine devices (71.3%), and contraceptive pills (42.9%). …”
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“…The agenda of many scientists who promote the theory of evolution is to achieve the goal of understanding the existence of the universe as a random, purposeless, natural development, evolved slowly over billions of years from a common ancestor by way of natural selection, devoid of any supernatural metaphysical power. Jewish faith perceives the development of the universe in a different way: God created the world, with a purpose known to Him; He established natural laws that govern the world; and He imposed a moral-religious set of requirements upon Man. …”
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“…Mothers were aware of the causes of low birth weight though some mothers believed in the influence of supernatural powers. Mothers who delivered in hospital had better knowledge of appropriate home care practices for low birth weight babies compared to mothers who delivered at home or in a lower level health facility. …”
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“…From a Western perspective, such performative behavior can be understood principally as inducing patients’ faith in the performer’s supernatural healing powers and effecting positive changes through the same mechanisms attributed to the placebo response, which is defined as improvement of clinical outcome in individuals receiving inactive treatment. …”
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“…We must keep in mind that, according to the ancient people, the physicians could not heal the patients without the aid of a “divine God” until medicine, thanks to the Hippocratic practice, became more independent from the supernatural, and contemporary, ethical, and professional. …”
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