Integrating Mental Health Screening into Routine Community Maternal and Child Health Activity: Experience from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2015
Publication Title
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Volume
50
Issue
3
First page number:
489
Last page number:
495
Abstract
Although the prevalence of mental health disorders in Nigeria is comparable to most developed countries, access to mental health care in Nigeria is limited. Improving access to care requires innovative approaches that deliver mental health interventions at the community level. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of integrating mental health screening into an existing community-based program for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV targeted at pregnant women and their male partners.
Keywords
Mental health screening; General Health Questionnaire12; Community and church-based screening; Adult Nigerians; Low-and middle-income countries (LMIC); PMTCT; Maternal and child health
Repository Citation
Iheanacho, T.,
Obiefune, M.,
Ezeanolue, C. O.,
Ogedegbe, G.,
Nwanyanwu, O. C.,
Ehiri, J. E.,
Ohaeri, J.,
Ezeanolue, E. E.
(2015).
Integrating Mental Health Screening into Routine Community Maternal and Child Health Activity: Experience from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria..
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 50(3),
489-495.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0952-7