Socio Cultural and Biomedical Beliefs for causalities and healing of Diabetic Mellitus in the Globe: Systematic Review 2021

Abstract

Background: Diabetic mellitus is the main public health problems now days in the world and the burden is higher in developing countries. Different anthropologic literatures were published to integrate socio cultural beliefs and biomedical practice for the management of diabetes mellites. The current study review anthropology perspectives of diabetic mellitus by using literatures conducted in the Globe and the relationship between health, socio cultural beliefs and biomedicine. Methods: This review included published studies in Electronic databases such as Pub Med, World Wide Science and Google scholar. Published studies from the search data base were exported to reference manager software, Endnote version 7 to remove duplicate studies. We screened the title and abstract, then the full-text as per settled inclusion criteria followed by full-text review to find eligible studies. Studies without abstract and/ or full text, unspecified reports, viewpoints and any systematic reviews and meta-analyses were excluded. The protocol for this review was sent for registration on the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews [PROSPERO] registration number CRD 237899. Result: The search have been collected a total of 72 studies in the world. Five articles were excluded due to duplication in each data base. About 47 articles and 15 articles were excluded based on the title and abstract screen respectively. After full-text reviews assessed one article was removed due to that comparative study and finally we have approved only 4 articles for systematic review. Conclusion: The review identified those beliefs about socio cultural, spiritual and biomedical aspects of the causalities, symptoms, and treatment. As there were limited studies in the world, we extracted data from few countries including Ethiopia. Almost all studies identified the socio-cultural causalities of diabetes mellitus as “hereditary, uncertainty, feeding habit and GOD”. The socio-cultural beliefs of healing also summarized as “GOD allows, holly water in Ethiopia only by orthodox Christians, traditional plants like Shiferaw or moringa also believed only in Ethiopia study, exercise, diet selection” were explained. All studies had brought that biomedical regimen were believed to bring healing in congruent with socio cultural beliefs.