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Risk factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State, Nigeria: A Community based study

BACKGROUND: The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State at community level using the general health questionnaire as a screening tool. METHOD: This cross-sectional, community- based survey was carried out among adults in th...

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Autores principales: Amoran, OE, Lawoyin, TO, Oni, OO
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1351179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16372910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-4-19
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Oni, OO
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description BACKGROUND: The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State at community level using the general health questionnaire as a screening tool. METHOD: This cross-sectional, community- based survey was carried out among adults in three randomly selected LGAs using multi-stage sampling technique. RESULTS: A total of 1105 respondents were assessed in all. The overall prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in Oyo state Nigeria was found to be 21.9%, (18.4% in the urban areas and 28.4% in the rural areas, p = 0.005). Young age ≤ 19 yrs (X(2 )= 20.41, p = 0.00013), Unemployment (X(2 )= 11.86 p = 0.0005), living condition below average (X(2 )= 12.21, p = 0.00047), physical health (X(2 )= 6.07, p = 0.014), and large family size (X(2 )= 14.09 p = 0.00017) were associated with increase risk for psychiatric morbidity. Following logistic regression analysis, Unemployment (C.I = 1.18–3.70, OR -2.1) and living conditions perceived to be above average (C.I = 1.99–5.50, OR-3.3) were significant predictors of mental illness while family size less than 6 (C.I = 0.86–0.97, OR-0.91) was protective. CONCLUSION: The teenagers and the rural populations are in greater need of mental health promotional services. Family planning should be made freely available in order to reduce the family size and hence incidence of mental illness in the African population.
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spelling pubmed-13511792006-01-26 Risk factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State, Nigeria: A Community based study Amoran, OE Lawoyin, TO Oni, OO Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary Research BACKGROUND: The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State at community level using the general health questionnaire as a screening tool. METHOD: This cross-sectional, community- based survey was carried out among adults in three randomly selected LGAs using multi-stage sampling technique. RESULTS: A total of 1105 respondents were assessed in all. The overall prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in Oyo state Nigeria was found to be 21.9%, (18.4% in the urban areas and 28.4% in the rural areas, p = 0.005). Young age ≤ 19 yrs (X(2 )= 20.41, p = 0.00013), Unemployment (X(2 )= 11.86 p = 0.0005), living condition below average (X(2 )= 12.21, p = 0.00047), physical health (X(2 )= 6.07, p = 0.014), and large family size (X(2 )= 14.09 p = 0.00017) were associated with increase risk for psychiatric morbidity. Following logistic regression analysis, Unemployment (C.I = 1.18–3.70, OR -2.1) and living conditions perceived to be above average (C.I = 1.99–5.50, OR-3.3) were significant predictors of mental illness while family size less than 6 (C.I = 0.86–0.97, OR-0.91) was protective. CONCLUSION: The teenagers and the rural populations are in greater need of mental health promotional services. Family planning should be made freely available in order to reduce the family size and hence incidence of mental illness in the African population. BioMed Central 2005-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC1351179/ /pubmed/16372910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-4-19 Text en Copyright © 2005 Amoran et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Risk factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State, Nigeria: A Community based study
title_short Risk factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State, Nigeria: A Community based study
title_sort risk factors associated with mental illness in oyo state, nigeria: a community based study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1351179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16372910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-4-19
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