ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2023
Mental health literacy: Perspectives from Northern Kenya Turkana adolescents.
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- Feasibility, acceptability and initial efficacy of a community-based mental health literacy program delivered by civil society organizations among adults in Kenya: A quasi-experimental study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Types and effectiveness of mental health promotion programmes for young people in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Mental illness accounts for high levels of morbidity, mortality and poor quality of life among young people. Depression, anxiety, conduct issues and hyperactive disorder account for 13% of the global burden of disease that affects one in seven adolescents. In Kenya, not much is documented about the mental health of non-school-going adolescents, and yet they make up about 1.8 million of the country's population. An ethnographic study by Focus Group Discussions with 32 rural northern Kenya Turkana-based adolescents divided into school and nonschool groups was conducted. We read out vignettes in which the main character exhibited symptoms of depression, schizophrenia or anxiety and explored their knowledge of causes and management options for the same, and then analyzed the data thematically. Participants described the conditions without referring to the local names we had collected earlier: depression (
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