Indigenous Spirit Possession Attribution and Psychosis Stigma Among Yoruba Traditional Healers: A Factorial Vignette Experiment on Causal Beliefs and Referral to Biomedical Care
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) October 22, 2026 Adaeze O. Adeyemi, Tunde K. Balogun preprint
Yoruba traditional healers occupy a pivotal position in the pathways to care for psychosis in south-western Nigeria, yet the causal beliefs they bring to clinical encounters and the referral decisions that follow remain poorly characterised. A 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects design manipulated causal attribution (spirit possession versus biomedical), symptom severity (acute versus chronic), and...