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Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond.
Western Pac Surveill Response J
September 2024
National Research Institute, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Problem: Many communities refer to sorcery or witchcraft to explain misfortunes such as sickness, death and disability. The effects of these beliefs on public health service delivery have long been overlooked. Beliefs in sorcery and witchcraft are significant challenges for health-care workers to understand to deliver better health outcomes and avoid inadvertently triggering accusations of witchcraft that may lead to violence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReligion and mental health: an Eastern Mediterranean region perspective.
Front Psychol
August 2024
Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
In the last decade, spirituality gained increasing recognition, with an individualized approach to the significance of symptoms and the purpose of treatment. Many psychiatrists started adopting the term "biopsychosocial-spiritual" management. Modern psychological therapies have drawn from the principles of ancient Eastern traditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSociodemographic predictors of beliefs about getting HIV infection by witchcraft or supernatural means: a population-based study of 15335 Senegalese women.
Afr Health Sci
March 2024
Faculty of Medicine, University of Algiers, Algeria.
Aim: To provide more insights about beliefs of witchcraft and supernatural means as causes of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among women in Senegal.
Method: We included eligible women from the demographic and health survey conducted in Senegal during the year 2017.
Results: We included 15335 women, of those 620 (4%) thought that they can get HIV through witchcraft or supernatural means.
A More MAGICal Alogrithm in Acute GVHD.
Transplant Cell Ther
April 2024
Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215; Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 27710. Electronic address:
SimSAARlabim study - The role magic tricks play in reducing pain and stress in children.
Vaccine
April 2024
Saarland University Medical Center, Department of General Pediatrics and Neonatology, Homburg, Germany; Franz-Lust Klinik für Kinder und Jugendliche, Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. Electronic address:
Background: Vaccination is an essential preventative medical intervention, but needle fearandinjection painmay result in vaccination hesistancy.
Study Purpose: To assess the role of magic tricks - no trick vs. one trick ("disappearing handkerchief trick") vs.
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