Why do People in Bali Meet Traditional Healer?
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200728.029How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Bali, balian, traditional healer, health seeking behavior, theory of planned behavior
- Abstract
The Balinese have a unique belief in daily life including their behavior to seek various kind of health care either to professionals (medical doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc.) or traditional healer (balian). Balian represents a person who is considered to have the power to heal illness. Balinese have no hesitation to meet traditional healer in order to get supplementary medical treatment for physical illness and psychological problems. Aim of this research was to explore the factors that influence Balinese in seeking treatment provided by traditional healer. This study was conducted using qualitative approach, and was divided into two phase, i.e. online survey phase (study 1) and interview phase (study 2). Participant of the studies were 118 Balinese (study 1) and 6 Balinese (study 2). Result of the study was Balinese decision to seek help from balian affected by many factors. In Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), participant’s behavior related to their individual belief about the positive impact after receiving treatment balian as attitude toward behavior. They had familial belief and family support as subjective norm that affect their decision to meet balian. Participant in this study also shown that they did not find difficulties to seek information or help from balian which illustrated the perceived behavioral control in TPB. For instance, individual and familial belief, family support, and perceived impact from balian played important role to Balinese behavior to seek health treatment from balian.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ni Made Swasti Wulanyani AU - Kadek Meri Wahyuni AU - Made Padma Dewi Bajirani AU - Aria Saloka Immanuel PY - 2020 DA - 2020/07/28 TI - Why do People in Bali Meet Traditional Healer? BT - Annual International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 131 EP - 136 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200728.029 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200728.029 ID - Wulanyani2020 ER -