Mental health literacy: Perspectives from Northern Kenya Turkana adolescents.
Kenya
adolescents
anxiety
depression
schizophrenia
Journal
Global mental health (Cambridge, England)
ISSN: 2054-4251
Titre abrégé: Glob Ment Health (Camb)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101659641
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
08
02
2023
revised:
11
05
2023
accepted:
29
05
2023
medline:
19
10
2023
pubmed:
19
10
2023
entrez:
19
10
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Mental illness accounts for high levels of morbidity, mortality and poor quality of life among young people. Depression, anxiety, conduct issues and hyperactive disorder account for 13% of the global burden of disease that affects one in seven adolescents. In Kenya, not much is documented about the mental health of non-school-going adolescents, and yet they make up about 1.8 million of the country's population. An ethnographic study by Focus Group Discussions with 32 rural northern Kenya Turkana-based adolescents divided into school and nonschool groups was conducted. We read out vignettes in which the main character exhibited symptoms of depression, schizophrenia or anxiety and explored their knowledge of causes and management options for the same, and then analyzed the data thematically. Participants described the conditions without referring to the local names we had collected earlier: depression (
Identifiants
pubmed: 37854396
doi: 10.1017/gmh.2023.25
pii: S2054425123000250
pmc: PMC10579695
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e35Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2023.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interest exists.
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