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0407/2018 - Aproximación a la concepción de la salud mental para los pueblos indígenas de Colombia.

Author:

• Eliana María Montoya - Montoya, E.M - <eliana.montoya.velez@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3358-380X

Co-author(s):

• Marcela López - López, M - <j.marce89@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3629-9377
• Sergio Cristancho - Cristancho, S - <sergio.cristancho@udea.edu.co>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5402-7530
• Marcela Cristina Valencia - Valencia, M.C - <mvalenciaf@ces.edu.co>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8837-9307
• Oscar David Montero - Montero, O.D - <oscardavidmontero@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3208-6833
• Dora Maria Hernández Holguín - Hernández Holguín, D.M - <dorahdezh@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1050-6625


Abstract:

This study aimed at understanding the concept of mental healtha Colombian indigenous peoples´ perspective. We did a qualitative researcha historic-hermeneutical paradigm. For that purpose, we did interviews to a purposeful sampling (stratified by National Indigenous Organization of Colombia macroregions) of 10 leaders with work experience in indigenous health and mental health. After being transcribed, we analyzed interview materials using a grounded theory approach. Findings were structured around four analytic categories: mental health perspectives, elements, scenarios, and challenges. We found that some indigenous people do not take mental health as an indigenous concept. Others take ita western morbicentric perspective and othersan ancestral holistic one. They describe positive elements (good living, spirituality, harmony with mother earth) and negative (acculturation, discrimination, violence, disobedience). Mental health scenarios included the land itself and the health care system, in particular the intercultural indigenous health system –SISPI-. Challenges include the need to conduct more research in this topic, advancing the SISPI, and strengthening ancestral knowledges.

Keywords:

Mental health, culture, Colombia, indigenous peoples.

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Montoya, E.M, López, M, Cristancho, S, Valencia, M.C, Montero, O.D, Hernández Holguín, D.M. Aproximación a la concepción de la salud mental para los pueblos indígenas de Colombia.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Sep). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/aproximacion-a-la-concepcion-de-la-salud-mental-para-los-pueblos-indigenas-de-colombia/16940



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