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Prevalence of Common Mental Disorder and Its Association with Khat Chewing among Ethiopian College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Common mental disorders and associated factors among adults after COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Exploring the association between khat use and psychiatric symptoms: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- Magnitude and predictors of common mental disorder among people with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Prevalence and determinants of psychotropic drug self-medication among medical students at the university of Gondar, Ethiopia: the role of mental health stigma.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The regulation and control of khat use and access in Ethiopia: Policy brief.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Prevalence and associated factors of mental distress among private college nursing students in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Individual and community-level factors associated with khat (Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mental health dynamics of adolescents: A one-year longitudinal study in Harari, eastern Ethiopia.PloS one · 2024Article
- Exploring the perception of key stakeholders toward khat policy approaches in Ethiopia: a qualitative study.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Is chewing khat associated with mental health disorders? A scoping review of the content and quality of the current evidence base.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2023Article
- Availability, Price and Affordability of Psychotropic Medicines in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2023Article
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- Predictors of Mental Health Literacy and Information Seeking Behavior Toward Mental Health Among University Students in Resource-Limited Settings.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- Feasibility and acceptability of brief individual interpersonal psychotherapy among university students with mental distress in Ethiopia.BMC psychology · 2021Article
- Khat Use Patterns, Associated Features, and Psychological Problems in a Khat-Treatment-Seeking Student Sample of Jimma University, Southwestern Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Magnitude, Symptom Presentation and Correlates of Psychological Distress Among People with Epilepsy in Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundMental disorder is a global burden that affects all groups of people. Young people, particularly college/university students, are more vulnerable to common mental disorders than the general population. Thus, students may use khat to gain immediate relief from their psychological distress which may worsen again after longer time of chewing. In Ethiopia, there are studies showing discrepant and inconsistent results of common mental disorder among college/university students. Therefore, this review sought to determine the prevalence of common mental disorder and its association with khat chewing among Ethiopian college/university students.
methodsDifferent kinds of literature were searched from the databases of Google Scholar, PubMed/Medline, ScienceDirect, and PsycINFO. A total of 10 primary studies which report the prevalence of common mental disorder among Ethiopian college/university students were included in the review. The data were extracted using a standardized data extraction format prepared in Microsoft Excel. STATA version 14 statistical software was used for analysis. Cochran's
resultsThe pooled prevalence of common mental disorder among Ethiopian college/university students was 37.73% (95% CI: 30.43, 45.03). The subgroup analysis showed the highest [51.9% (95% CI: 30.19, 73.70)] and lowest [33.28% (95% CI: 19.95, 46.60)] prevalences of common mental disorder among Ethiopian college/university students found in Amhara and South Nation Nationality and People regions, respectively. The pooled effect (odds ratio) of khat chewing on common mental disorder was 2.01 (95% CI: 1.38, 2.95).
conclusionsIn our review, it is found that more than one-third of college/university students suffered from common mental disorder. Khat chewers were found to be twofolds more vulnerable to develop common mental disorder than nonchewers.
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