mental healthmental health promotionNigeriaThere is a growing global recognition of the importance of promoting mental health and preventing mental illnesses, particularly regarding the "common mental disorders" of depression and anxiety, which have not shown any significant decrease in prevalence in ...
Mental health is a public health challenge with lack of understanding, great institutional neglect and widespread stigma in Nigeria. There is also a dearth of secondary review studies exploring knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes towards persons with mental health disorders in Nigeria. The aim of ...
Nigeriapsychiatric disordersIn addition to the stresses common to medical school training, medical students in Nigeria face additional peculiar contemporary social problems due to income inequality, poverty, insecurity and political instability. These have a direct impact on their mental health and well...
in the southwest region of Nigeria, adjusted better to the situation than other ethnic groups. The Igbo people, in the southeast region, were not that worried when compared to other ethnic groups. But the Yoruba had more positive views of themselves than...
maternal and child health activity: experience from a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria" provides promising evidence about the feasibility of a church-based strategy for screening pregnant women and their partners for mental health problems through a PMTCT program...
In many of these areas, rights face barriers to meaningful implementation. I Trade impacts on the rights to health in numerous ways. States have to ensure the trade rules and policies they select are consistent with their obligations in relation to the right to health. This of course raises ...
point you might think, “but maybe there’s actually someone, just that the people I reached out to didn’t know or couldn’t reach them,” but there’s almost nothing (I say this because I spent weeks researching this topic on the internet), about maternal mental health in Nigeria. ...
healthcare, including mental health services. Due to the illegal nature of their work in many jurisdictions, they may be reluctant to seek support or fear discrimination from healthcare providers18. This lack of appropriate resources can hinder their ability to address mental health concerns and ...
While there is a growing literature on the mental health literacy of adults, there has not been a parallel interest in the mental health literacy of young people in Nigeria. The study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted among students of a Federal Government College (high school)...
Mental health literacy was abysmally low amongst the adolescents surveyed. There’s an urgent need to increase mental health awareness in Nigeria.Background The burden of depression and other mental health conditions is on the rise globally; depression is a leading cause of disability and has been...