From: Traditional healing practices in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative investigation
Questions to the healers | Questions to the patients |
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1. Would you please tell me about your socio- economic information (age, religion, level of education, occupation and monthly income)? | 1. Would you please tell me about your socio- economic information (age, religion, level of education, occupation and monthly income)? |
2. Please tell me, how did you come to be a healer? Recall and inform me in details; what was it like? Can anyone become a healer or do you think it is special gift? What is the source of your healing knowledge? | 2. Please describe what you have experienced during the healing process? What did you feel then? Did it make any change in your life? How? |
3. For how many years have you been practicing traditional healing? | 3. For how many years have you been using the services from traditional healers practicing? |
4. Do you consider yourself to be a positive or both positive and negative influence for the patients? If yes/no, how? | 4. Have you ever experienced negative effects of traditional healing? If yes, how? |
5. Please describe, what type of healing practices do you perform? Please tell me how a healing activity takes place? Maybe you can share an example of recent healing practice? Do you pursue other professions besides healing? | 5. Please describe, what type of healing practices do you usually follow for you and for your family? Maybe you can share an example of how have you benefited in healing? |
6. Do you prepare yourself for a healing treatment? Where does the healing take places? Who participate in it? Do you follow any specific healing time? | 6. Did you prepare yourself for the healing treatment? Where did the treatment take place? Who participates in it? |
7. Who usually visits you, how and why? How do people find you? | 7. Who do you usually visit, how and why? How do people find a healer? Have you been to other healers before? |
8. How would you consider the following: disease, health and cure? What do you think are the causes of disease? | 8. How would you consider the following: disease, health and cure? What do you think are the causes of disease? |
9. What are the processes you follow for diagnosis a problem? | 9. What did you expect from healing treatment? Why did you consult with a healer? |
10. What are the usual disorders for which you offer healing? How do you feel about conventional doctors? What are the eligibility criteria you follow to be healed in traditional healing? | 10. How are you, since you resorted to the traditional healing system? What exactly has changed? When did the change begin? |
11. What are the healing requirements or rituals you suggest for the patients? Do you follow any preventive measures in your healing practices? | 11. How do particular beliefs or religions function in healing? |
12. How do particular beliefs or religions function in healing? | 12. If following a traditional healing does not work as curative, what else you do? |
13. Do you apply your healing knowledge to your family or for yourself? Do you wish your children or your next generation to devote themselves to the healing profession? | 13. When was the first time you visited a healer? Recall, what was it like? Tell me something about your life and disease history. |