3. Cultural Care Repatterning /Restructuring
Cultural care repatterning is a process of making substantive changes which often means giving up harmful or-less beneficial care practices and adopting new and different care patterns. This process was important with Iranian informants whose practices of self-medicating by using such drugs as Panadol and tranquilizers and some harmful herbs and home remedies needed to be creatively repatterned for healthy outcomes. Therapy modes used in western medicine such as group sessions and counseling were identified as conflicting with cultural norms and practices of Iranians because they relied on the family as primary caregivers to support them in health and illness. Western individually focused therapy modes needed to be repatterned to include family members in meaningful ways to meet Iranian culture care needs for improvement of their health and well being