Diagnoses of Children and Adolescents On Initial Presentation To a Nigerian Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
| Autor: | José R. Maldonado, Stuart L. Lustig |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Complementary Therapies
Hospitals Psychiatric Male Mental Health Services medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Culture education Specialty Nigeria 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ambulatory care Epidemiology Ambulatory Care medicine Child and adolescent psychiatry Humans Psychiatric hospital 030212 general & internal medicine Child Psychiatry business.industry Mental Disorders Public health Social environment Mental health humanities 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Child Preschool Female business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 45:190-197 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2854 0020-7640 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002076409904500306 |
| Popis: | Child and adolescent psychiatry is an underdeveloped specialty in Nigeria, relegated by more entrenched cultural systems, such as traditional healers and syncretic churches, to merely an auxiliary role in child mental health care. Little is therefore known about the epidemiology of childhood disorders as encountered in psychiatric settings. We reviewed the outpatient psychiatric clinic's patient register at the Psychiatric Hospital of Uselu in Benin City, Nigeria, over a twenty-four week period. Fifty-three patients who presented in the twenty-four week index period had definite diagnoses indicated in the register. Of these, 68% had diagnoses denoting significant behavioral disturbances that would motivate their visit to allopathic hospitals after other, more culturally sanctioned healers were of little help. Our findings are compared with similar studies in other cultures. |
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