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Sep 2026
“It is the devil, not a disease”: Misconceptions, stigma, and mental health in Somalia’s outpatient psychiatric settings
Content of image described in text. Abstract In Somalia, a treatment gap exceeding 80% reflects the combined effects of supernatural explanatory models, multi-level stigma and a critically under-resourced mental health system. Misconceptions framing psychiatric illness as jinn possession, divine punishment or medicatio...
Abdiwali Mohamed Hussein, F. Yusuf
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