Cultural pathways to psychosis care: Patient and caregiver narratives from Puebla, Mexico
 
				Authors: Sylvanna M Vargas
 
				
				
				
				Affiliations
				
					1 Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 
 
 
 
 
 2 Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 
 
 
 
 
 3 Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 
 
 
 
 
 4 San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA. 
 
 
 
 
 5 Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 
 
 
 
 
 6 Universidad Anahuac-Puebla, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. 
				
				
				
				Description
					
					The current study used the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI) to explore patients' (n = 6) and caregivers' (n = 3) narratives about how they identified and sought care for psychosis. Participants were recruited from an outpatient clinic at the Hospital Psiquiátrico Dr. Rafael Serrano, a public psychiatric hospital in Puebla, Mexico. All participants consented to complete semi-structured interviews in Spanish. Thematic analyses were used to inductively identify common themes in...
				
 
				
					
					Keywords: Mexico;  cultural scripts;  illness narrative;  psychosis;  
 
				
				
				
				Links
				PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38470500/
 
				
					DOI: 10.1177/13634615241233683