Mental 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 legislation in trying to...
The World Mental Health Surveys conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown that huge treatment gaps for severe mental disorders exist in both developed and developing countries. This gap is greatest in low and middle income countries (LM
Increasing access to mental health care will definitely not solve all the problems associated with mental health in Nigeria but it would improve the quality of people’s lives by first reducing unhealthy coping mechanisms, the risk of substance abuse, self-harm and suicide, family conflict, mental...
as the expert on the mental health of mothers in Nigeria that I was looking for wasn’t forthcoming. I agreed. Then the next task started – to find a female clinical psychologist. Now, there was no other reason I was looking for a female other than the fact that I felt...
The toll of the coronavirus pandemic on physical health and lives worldwide is enormous. But the disease and the lockdown measures have had an impact on mental health too.
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< 0.01. Also, gender had a significant influence on mental health of care-givers, F (1, 93) = 9.52, p < 0.01. Findings were discussed with particular reference to providing intrinsic motivation to care-givers and a reform of the health system in Nigeria.Keyword:Burden of Care, Gender, ...
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Antenatal careFamily healthLay health advisorsThe burden of perinatal mental disorders among women in low- and middle-income countries is substantial. The current integration of mental health into maternal, neonatal and child health service platforms is limited, despite global calls to prioritize such ...
It was built in 1944 and provides both regional and national quality mental health care and services. It is widely known as Nigeria’s apex center for Psychiatry. It renders such services as Radio-Diagnostics, Adolescent Mental Health, Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry, Electroencephalography (EEG) ...