ArticleBMC psychiatry2024
The perceived impact of climate change on mental health and suicidality in Kenyan high school students.
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- Responding to a warming planet: a scoping review of climate change literacy, perceived health impacts, and mental health outcomes among African students.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Pooled it
- Climate change and suicide epidemiology: a systematic review and meta-analysis of gender variations in global suicide rates.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Scoping review: climate change-related anxiety and worry in children, adolescents, and young adults.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Review
- Changes in resource insecurity, sexual and mental health among young women after Kenya's 2024 heavy rains and floods.International health · 2026Article
- A systematic review of the association between climate change and suicidality reveals that climate indicators increase suicide rates.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Patterns of loneliness among high school students: A sociodemographic analysis in Kenya.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Climate Change and Mental Health in Africa: A Scoping Review.Annals of global health · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Prevalence and comorbidity of mental health concerns, alcohol and drug use among young women in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda: findings from the TOPOWA study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The mental health impact of the climate and ecological crisis on vulnerable populations in Africa.Cogent mental health · 2025Review
- Assessing Sub-Saharan Africa's readiness to address the impact of climate change and health: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Face-to-face bullying in and outside of schools and cyberbullying are associated with suicidality in Kenyan high school students: a public health issue.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Emerging mechanistic pathways linking heat, sleep and mental health in low-resource urban settings: Insights from Kampala and Beyond.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
- Climate anxiety in children and young people: A systematic review of prevalence and measurement methods.The journal of climate change and healthReview
- The psychosocial impacts of slow onset climate change events among youth in LMICs: A rapid evidence review.The journal of climate change and healthReview
- Pediatric climate distress: A scoping review and clinical resource.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundClimate change has psychological impacts but most of the attention has been focused on the physical impact. This study was aimed at determining the association of climate change with adolescent mental health and suicidality as reported by Kenyan high school students.
methodsThis was a cross sectional study with a sample size of 2,652. The participants were high school students selected from 10 schools in 3 regions of Kenya. A questionnaire was used to assess climate change experiences, mental health problems, and suicidality of the youth. Data were analyzed descriptively and with logistic regression to determine various associations of the different variables and the predictors of the various scores of SDQ and suicidality at 95% CI.
resultsSignificant differences were observed between gender and two of the threats of climate change - worry and being afraid as subjectively experienced by the participants. Females were more worried and afraid of climate change than males. On univariate and multivariate logistic regression, we found that various experiences of climate change were significantly associated with various scores of SDQ and much fewer of the experiences predicted SDQ scores. The same pattern was reflected in suicidality.
conclusionClimate change appears to be associated with mental health concerns and suicidality according to Kenyan high school students' reports with gender differences in some associations.
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