THE PREVALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FACTORS FORACTORS FORACTORS FORACTORS FORACTORS FORPSYPSYPSYPSYPSYCHIACHIACHIACHIACHIATRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN ABORSTBORSTBORSTBORSTBORSTAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERI
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2011
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South African Journal of Psychiatry
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Objectives:To document psychiatric disorders and the risks among youths in a Borstal in Nigeria inorder to direct the focus of policy makers to their mental health needs.Design: 2-staged cross-sectional study.Place and duration: This study was conducted in a borstal institution in Ilorin, Nigeria in October, 2008.Subjects and Methods:All the inmates were recruited and administered with socio-demographic andGHQ-12 questionnaires; and a MINI KID interview. Data was analyzed with SPSS for Windows, version11, using 2-tailed tests at a 5% level of significance.Results:Of the 53 inmates, 58.5% stayed >24weeks, 35.8% were in middle position within family, theparents were responsible for inmates’ admission in 81.1%, and 64.2% had their parents living together. While 62.3% had psychiatric problems in the past months, 50.9% had MINI lifetime diagnoses, and45.3% had ‘current’ diagnoses. When diagnoses were collapsed, 98.1% had ‘any psychiatric disorder’,67.9% had ‘any distruptive behaviour disorder’ (DBD), 58.5% had ‘any substance use disorder’, and54.7% had ‘any mood disorder’. The mean psychiatric diagnosis in the cohort was 4.26±2.5. Significant associations were observed between Christianity and ‘any DBD’ [(x2= 6.34,df=1,p=0.01),(r=-0.35,OR=1.8,CI=1.0-2.9, p=0.01)]; parents who were living together and ‘any mood disorder’ [(x2=6.4,df=1, p=0.01), (r=-0.35,OR=2.1, CI=1.1-4.3, p=0.01)], and ‘any current disorder’ [(x2=4.3, df=1, p=0.04),(r=-0.28, OR=2.1,CI=0.9-4.7, p=0.04)]; and between ages >18years and ‘any psychiatric disorder’[(x2=9.8,df=3, p=0.02),(r=0.33, p=0.02)]
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Psychiatric disorders, Borstal institution, Nigeria
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THE PREVALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FALENCE AND RISK FACTORS FORACTORS FORACTORS FORACTORS FORACTORS FORPSYPSYPSYPSYPSYCHIACHIACHIACHIACHIATRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YTRIC DISORDERS AMONG YOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN AOUTHS IN ABORSTBORSTBORSTBORSTBORSTAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERIAAL INSTITUTION IN NIGERI