Culture-bound Medical Problem and Community Nursing

Pathum Sookardomdee

Abstract


The culture bound medical disorder is a specific group of illness that is strongly related to the local culture and belief. The clinical problem is a combination of both physical and psychiatric compositions and mainly affected by specific cultural background of specific community. To manage those culture-bound problems, the community nurse has to learn about the community background, recognize the local belief and value and participate for adjustment of local patients’ problems. Community health nurses should recognize and think about culture bound medical disorder when there is an atypical clinical presentation of a patient in community health nursing.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijchn.v1i2.740

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