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...
More than a decade later, depression remains the most commonly studied mental health condition in global mental health and an “implicit priority” of the field (Misra et al. 2019, p.1) [3]. Depression appears in more than twice as many empirical studies on global mental health (29.7%) c...
are living with a mental health disorder [1,2]. Although anxiety and depression account for the largest burden of mental health issues with prevalence of almost 31% and 29% respectively, other mental health issues, such as bipolar disorder...
A cross-sectional study conducted in six African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya) revealed that more than half the population reported experiencing the impact of climate change [21]. Further, the 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (...
13,44 Severity and Treatment The proportion of respondents who received health care treatment for emotional or substance-use problems during the 12 months before the WMH interview varies widely across surveys (Table 5), from a low of 0.8% in Nigeria to a high of 15.3% in the United States....
Daniel's years of mental health struggles, stretching back into his early childhood, came to a head in early 2022. His often-uncontrollable emotional outbursts became unmanageable; he was "unraveling," his parents said. CBS News is only using the first names of former patients interviewed for ...
She noted that about 75 to 95 percent of people with mental health disorders in low and middle-income countries like Nigeria are unable to access mental health services.According to her, Nigeria at present has less than 250 psychiatrists in a country with a population...
The Nigerian Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing is supported by the World Health Organization (Geneva), the World Health Organization (Nigeria), and the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria. The Peruvian World Mental Health Study is funded by the National Institute of Health of the Ministry...
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This study’s finding of more than half of the patients going directly to the public psychiatric as their first pathway point of contact for mental health services seem consistent with similar finding in Nigeria where majority of patients sought treatment at a formal psychiatric care facility [12]...