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BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article Open Access Perceptions about the cause of schizophrenia and the subsequent help seeking behavior in a Pakistani population – results of a cross-sectional survey 1 †1 †1 1 Syed Nabeel Zafar* , Reema Syed , Sarah Tehseen , Saqib A Gowani , 1 1 1 1 Sana Waqar , Amina Zubair , Wajeeha Yousaf , Akbar J Zubairi and Haider Naqvi2 1 2 Address: Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan Email: Syed Nabeel Zafar* - zafar.nabeel@; Reema Syed - syed.reema@; Sarah Tehseen - sarah.tehseen@; Saqib A Gowani - saqib_gowani@; Sana Waqar - swaqar84@; Amina Zubair - xaphia666@; Wajeeha Yousaf - wajeeha.yousaf@; Akbar J Zubairi - akbar.zubairi@; Haider Naqvi - haider.naqvi@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 17 July 2008 Received: 4 March 2008 Accepted: 17 July 2008 BMC Psychiatry 2008, 8:56 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-8-56 This article is available from: /1471-244X/8/56 © 2008 Zafar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distributio