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The prevalence of depression may be affected by changes in psychiatric practices and the availability of online mental health information in the past two decades. This study aimed to evaluate the aggregate prevalence of depression in communities from different countries between 1994 and 2014 and to ex...
Such data are needed to estimate the psychiatric needs of this population. We report the prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders in 454 consecutive new nursing home admissions who were evaluated by psychiatrists and diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ...
We also found that the symptoms of mental illness were more commonly reported by people with certaindemographic characteristics. Probable depression and probable anxiety were more frequently reported among adults who were: retired and older than 65 years; widowed, divorced or separated; living in metro...
In comparison to men, women bear a greater burden of suicide behavior when it comes to the overall burden of morbidity and death17. Additionally, statistics from various sources worldwide showed that the estimated disease burden for mental illness is 32.4% of the overall global disease burden18....
High rates of tuberculosis (TB) and TB/HIV co-infection is often linked with mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, which is further associated with poor health outcomes. In a country such as South Africa where rates of these infectious diseases are high,...
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Prevalence of mental illness and its impact on the use of home care and nursing homes: a population-based study of older adults in Manitoba. Can J Psychiatry. 2007;52(9):581-590. doi:10.1177/070674370705200906 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 55. Molero AE, Pino-Ramírez G, ...
Poverty-related infectious diseases are a group of diseases that are prevalent mainly in resource-poor areas [1]. Among them, vector-borne parasitic infectious diseases of poverty (hereafter referred to as vb-pIDP) are human illnesses caused by parasitic pathogens that are transmitted by vectors ...
Approximately two million Ghanaians suffer from mental disorders including depression. The WHO defines it as an illness characterized by constant sadness and loss of interest in activities that a person usually enjoys doing and this condition is the leading cause of mental disorders; however, the bur...