Explanatory models in patients with first episode depression: A study from North India

Relationship of supernatural beliefs and first treatment contact in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder: An exploratory study from India

“…However, the beliefs in other domains do not appear to differ much. Studies which have evaluated patients with depression by using other scales (Grover et al, 2012) also suggest attribution of depression to similar kind of beliefs in nearly equal proportion of patients as those with OCD seen in this study. One study from eastern India that included 120 patients with different illnesses evaluated the etiological beliefs and help-seeking behavior of patients with mental illnesses, which also included 10 patients with OCD and other anxiety disorders and 26 patients with dissociative disorders.…”

Mental illness stigmas in South Asian Americans: A cross-cultural investigation.

“…Though research with populations in Asia has identified beliefs regarding the potential causes of mental illness (Dein, Alexander, & Napier, 2008; Grover et al, 2012; Kishore, Gupta, Jiloha, & Bantman, 2011; Waqas, Zubair, Ghulam, Wajih Ullah, & Zubair Tariq, 2014), relatively less research has examined similar questions among Asian American populations. Rather, research examining mental illness stigma among Asian Americans has focused largely on views toward mental health treatment (Abe-Kim et al, 2007; Atkinson & Gim, 1989; Leong & Lau, 2001; Shea & Yeh, 2008) or interactions with individuals with mental illness (Eisenberg, Downs, Golberstein, & Zivin, 2009; Loya, Reddy, & Hinshaw, 2010).…”

“…Supernatural attributions for mental illness may also place blame on others, rather than the individual with mental illness. For example, the evil eye ( nazar ), an attribution for mental illness that attributes illness to the jealous or malevolent gaze of another person, was given by 24% of a sample of Indians suffering depression in a hospital in north-western India (Grover et al, 2012). In this context, the individual with the illness is viewed as the victim and may evoke feelings of empathy rather than stigma.…”

Explanatory models of somatoform disorder patients attending a psychiatry outpatient clinic: A study from North India

“…In this study, slightly more than half of the patients reported ‘karma–deed–heredity’ as the causal models for their symptoms. Patients with other psychiatric disorders like depression and obsessive compulsive disorder from India too attribute their symptoms to the same (Grover et al, 2012; Patra, in press). This category includes causes like fate/chance, bad deeds, heredity, will of god, evil eye, sorcery, possession, neglect vows or rituals, astrology and other supernatural causes.…”