Naturalistic outcome of treatment of psychosis by traditional healers in Jinja and Iganga districts, Eastern Uganda – a 3- and 6 months follow up

Table 1 General outcome of treatment of psychosis by traditional healers at three and six months follow up

Follow up period	Number of non caseness^a	Percentage	95% CI
Baseline
Schizophrenia (N=28)	-	24.35	17.43-32.96
Mania (N=41)	-	35.65	27.49-44.76
Depression (N=46)	-	40.00	31.50-49.16
Total
3 months:
Schizophrenia(N=27)	4	14.81	06.06-32.67
Mania(N=37)	20	54.05	38.30-69.02
Psychotic Depression(N=37)	16	42.24	28.62-59.18
Total	40	39.60	30.61-49.38
6 months:
Schizophrenia(N=26)	8	30.77	16.52-50.18
Mania(N=36)	21	58.33	39.49-70.51
Psychotic depression (N=28)	12	46.43	26.45-61.06
Total	41	45.56	35.64-55.84

^a Number of those who scored below the cut off point caseness in the respective scales indicating improvement.

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