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. 2018 Dec 20;2018:8590381. doi: 10.1155/2018/8590381

Table 2.

Sources of knowledge and duration of practice for traditional medicine practitioners who treat mental and neurological disorders in Ghana.

Variable Frequency Percentage (%)
Source of the knowledge of herbal medical practice
Inheritance (knowledge passed on from others) 38 63.3
Divine/spiritual 14 23.3
Formal training 8 13.3

Years of herbal medical practice
1-5 17 27.0
6-10 10 15.9
11-15 13 20.6
16-20 23 36.5