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Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders among adolescents is on the rise globally. Patients seldom present to mental health physicians, for fear of stigmatization, and due to the dearth of mental health physicians. They are mostly picked during consultations with Family Physicians. This study seeks to i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37971998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285911 |
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author | Kumbet, Sonny John Oseni, Tijani Idris Ahmad Mensah-Bonsu, Magdalene Damagum, Fatima Mohammed Opare-Lokko, Edwina Beryl Addo Namisango, Eve Olawumi, AbdulGafar Lekan Ephraim, Onyenwe Chibuike Aweh, Benjamin |
author_facet | Kumbet, Sonny John Oseni, Tijani Idris Ahmad Mensah-Bonsu, Magdalene Damagum, Fatima Mohammed Opare-Lokko, Edwina Beryl Addo Namisango, Eve Olawumi, AbdulGafar Lekan Ephraim, Onyenwe Chibuike Aweh, Benjamin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders among adolescents is on the rise globally. Patients seldom present to mental health physicians, for fear of stigmatization, and due to the dearth of mental health physicians. They are mostly picked during consultations with Family Physicians. This study seeks to identify the common mental health disorders seen by family Physicians in Family Medicine Clinics in Nigeria and Ghana. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study involving 302 Physicians practicing in Family Medicine Clinics in Nigeria and Ghana, who were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected using self-administered semi-structured questionnaire, and were entered into excel spreadsheet before analysing with IBM-SPSS version 22. Descriptive statistics using frequencies and percentages was used to describe variables. RESULTS: Of the 302 Physicians recruited for the study, only 233 completed the study, in which 168 (72.1%) practiced in Nigeria and 65 (27.9%) in Ghana. They were mostly in urban communities (77.3%) and tertiary health facilities (65.2%). Over 90% of Family Medicine practitioners attended to adolescents with mental health issues with over 70% of them seeing at least 2 adolescents with mental health issues every year. The burden of mental health disorder was 16% and the common mental health disorders seen were depression (59.2%), Bipolar Affective Disorder (55.8%), Epilepsy (51.9%) and Substance Abuse Disorder (44.2%). CONCLUSION: Family Physicians in Nigeria and Ghana attend to a good number of adolescents with mental health disorders in their clinics. There is the need for Family Physicians to have specialized training and retraining to be able to recognize and treat adolescent mental health disorders. This will help to reduce stigmatization and improve the management of the disease thus, reducing the burden. |
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spelling | pubmed-106534032023-11-16 Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria Kumbet, Sonny John Oseni, Tijani Idris Ahmad Mensah-Bonsu, Magdalene Damagum, Fatima Mohammed Opare-Lokko, Edwina Beryl Addo Namisango, Eve Olawumi, AbdulGafar Lekan Ephraim, Onyenwe Chibuike Aweh, Benjamin PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders among adolescents is on the rise globally. Patients seldom present to mental health physicians, for fear of stigmatization, and due to the dearth of mental health physicians. They are mostly picked during consultations with Family Physicians. This study seeks to identify the common mental health disorders seen by family Physicians in Family Medicine Clinics in Nigeria and Ghana. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study involving 302 Physicians practicing in Family Medicine Clinics in Nigeria and Ghana, who were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected using self-administered semi-structured questionnaire, and were entered into excel spreadsheet before analysing with IBM-SPSS version 22. Descriptive statistics using frequencies and percentages was used to describe variables. RESULTS: Of the 302 Physicians recruited for the study, only 233 completed the study, in which 168 (72.1%) practiced in Nigeria and 65 (27.9%) in Ghana. They were mostly in urban communities (77.3%) and tertiary health facilities (65.2%). Over 90% of Family Medicine practitioners attended to adolescents with mental health issues with over 70% of them seeing at least 2 adolescents with mental health issues every year. The burden of mental health disorder was 16% and the common mental health disorders seen were depression (59.2%), Bipolar Affective Disorder (55.8%), Epilepsy (51.9%) and Substance Abuse Disorder (44.2%). CONCLUSION: Family Physicians in Nigeria and Ghana attend to a good number of adolescents with mental health disorders in their clinics. There is the need for Family Physicians to have specialized training and retraining to be able to recognize and treat adolescent mental health disorders. This will help to reduce stigmatization and improve the management of the disease thus, reducing the burden. Public Library of Science 2023-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10653403/ /pubmed/37971998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285911 Text en © 2023 Kumbet et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kumbet, Sonny John Oseni, Tijani Idris Ahmad Mensah-Bonsu, Magdalene Damagum, Fatima Mohammed Opare-Lokko, Edwina Beryl Addo Namisango, Eve Olawumi, AbdulGafar Lekan Ephraim, Onyenwe Chibuike Aweh, Benjamin Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria |
title | Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria |
title_full | Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria |
title_fullStr | Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria |
title_short | Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria |
title_sort | common adolescent mental health disorders seen in family medicine clinics in ghana and nigeria |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37971998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285911 |
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