Lay prototypes of illness among a Northern Sotho community in South Africa
SOURCE: Social Behavior and Personality
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer, S.Mmusi, M.Phaswana, T.Misi
KEYWORDS: DISEASES, HEALTH, NORTHERN SOTHO SPEAKING PEOPLE
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4040
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6601
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6601
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer, S.Mmusi, M.Phaswana, T.Misi
KEYWORDS: DISEASES, HEALTH, NORTHERN SOTHO SPEAKING PEOPLE
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4040
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6601
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6601
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Abstract
Illness representations have been shown to differ across cultures. The aim of the study was to study disease terminology and lay prototypes among a Northern Sotho community in South Africa. The sample for a free listing of disease terms included 41 (55%) women and 34 (45%) men, with a mean age of 36 years (SD=5.6, range 18 to 75 years). The sample for pile sorting of disease terms included 80 Northern Sotho-speaking third-year students from the University of Limpopo; 44 women, 36 men, mean age, 23.4 years (SD=3.4). From free listing of disease terms 50 were selected for pile sorting. Using hierarchical cluster analysis the following clusters could be identified: (1) respiratory problems, (2) internal body problems and sexually transmitted diseases, (3) chronic diseases and head diseases, (4) child diseases and mental problems, (5) child diseases and cancer, (6) feet problems, (7) gastrointestinal diseases. There was homogeneity of features within cluster and difference between clusters.-
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