Mental health screenings for couples at churches in Nigeria: a strategy for enhancing community-based maternal mental health services in low-resource settings.

Journal: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

Volume: 50

Issue: 3

Year of Publication: 2015

Affiliated Institutions:  Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Box , Durham, NC, , USA, jnb@duke.edu.

Abstract summary 

The burden of perinatal mental disorders among women in low- and middle-income countries is substantial. The current integration of mental health into maternal, neonatal and child health service platforms is limited, despite global calls to prioritize such service integration. The study by Iheanacho and colleagues (2014) entitled "Integrating mental health screening into routine community maternal and child health activity: experience from a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria" provides promising evidence about the feasibility of a church-based strategy for screening pregnant women and their partners for mental health problems through a PMTCT program.

Authors & Co-authors:  Baumgartner Joy Noel JN Kaaya Sylvia S Siril Hellen H

Study Outcome 

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Statistics
Citations :  Bull World Health Organ. 2004 Nov;82(11):858-66
Authors :  3
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1007/s00127-014-0988-8
SSN : 1433-9285
Study Population
Women
Mesh Terms
Community Health Services
Other Terms
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Country of Study
Niger
Publication Country
Germany