Mental health lawMental health policiesNigeriaPublic healthIn Nigeria, the disparity between available healthcare services and need for mental health services is palpable. Although, the country has made significant advances on challenging public health problems, health-related policy development and ...
What can the government do to improve mental health in Nigeria? The government has a lot of work to do in improving the mental health space in Nigeria. First off, the political will to make a change is paramount seeing as we still uphold the lunacy act and have a defunct Mental health ...
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...
The program was implemented over 18 months in 8 selected local government areas (LGAs) in Osun state of Nigeria, using the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG), which had been contextualized for the local setting. A well supervised cascade training model was ut...
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...
mental healthmental disorderMental 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 ...
For instance, a poll on mental health conducted by the Africa Polling Institute (API) and EpiAFRIC in Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, reveals a poor awareness of mental health, with the majority of respondents unaware that they have mental health illnesses [1]. Most patients ...
Objective: In this study, we plan to estimate the frequency of burnout among healthcare providers in a specialized teaching Hospital. Methods: A questionna... Y Abbasi,L Meraj,A Batool,... - 《Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 Health, well-being, and burnou...
Understanding mental illness in Nigeria: Bringing culture and traditional medicine into mental health policy Advocacy for mental illness is severely inadequate due to fear of stigmatization, with no formally recognized national of regional mental health association.^Stephanie E UrigweUrigwe, S.E. (2010...
Most mental disorders have a typical onset between 12 and 25 years of age, highlighting the importance of this period for the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of mental ill-health. This perspective addresses interactions between risk and protective