ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2026
Religious leaders as mental health gatekeepers in Nigeria: Belief-attitude typologies and implications for faith-health system integration: Findings from the CLERIC study.
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In Nigeria, religious leaders are de facto mental health gatekeepers, yet their explanatory models and attitudes remain poorly characterised at the population level. This cross-sectional study maps causal beliefs and attitudes among 207 Christian and Muslim religious leaders in Lagos using validated, culturally adapted instruments, forming the attitudinal and typological component of the CLERIC research programme. An integrated conceptual model posits that explanatory models structure causal attributions, which constitute the cognitive foundation of stigma-related attitudes clustering into typologies with direct implementation implications. Spiritual causation was most strongly endorsed (
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