Abstract Introduction: In Kenya, there are few psychiatric nurses available to provide mental health services. Few students pursue psychiatric nursing specialty. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting psychiatric clinical experience of students of nursing during mental health nursing placement and its influence on the choice of psychiatric nursing specialty training. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted with a sample size of 241 partic...
Abstract Management of mentally ill patients is mainly done by psychiatric nurses in Kenya. This study sought to identify the association between nursing students’ psychiatric encounters and the perception towards psychiatric nursing in Kenya using a cross-sectional study design. Cluster and systematic random sampling were used to select the study participants. Data was analysed using SPSS version 21. Odds ratio was used to identify the association between variables. A significant associat...
Abstract Context: Corona Virus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), spread across the globe, causing distress among various populations, including healthcare providers. This disease has had an unparalleled effect on the world's economic situation, livelihood, and mental and physical well-being across the globe. Aim: To assess the healthcare providers' psychological responses and related demographic and soc...
This course focuses on building on knowledge of psychosocial development from childhood to adulthood and the understanding of human behavior in health and illness and the knowledge acquired from NSC 314 (Mental Health Nursing and Psychiatric Nursing I) and NSC 412 (mental health and psychiatric nursing II) It is designed to equip the students to completely employ nursing process and evidence base nursing practice in the development of nursing care of Psychiatric clients. The course will expos...
Introduction In the last few decades psychiatric discourse has undergone an important change in its' scope and focus. During the heady days of psychoanalytic hegemony, psychiatrists were willing to prognosticate or pontificate on just about anything, from individual neurosis through to social maladies, from medicine to literature, from the unconscious to the conscious. Nowadays, psychiatry self-consciously emphasizes its origins as 0 medical discipline, focuses its diognostic efforts on opero...
Selected Results Of The "Methods For The Epidemiology Of Child And Adolescent Mental Disorders" Study
ABSTRACT Background: HIV/AIDS pose a direct threat to child health and well-being, which gives a burden of poverty to the household family and increase the risk of mental health problems among HIV infected children. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of HIV status on childhood deprivation, depressive symptoms and quality of life among HIVinfected and uninfected children aged from 7 to 17 years old. Method: A matched case-control study design was conducted by involvin...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To compare the effects of depression and chronic physical conditions on disability in elderly persons. SETTING: Yoruba-speaking areas of Nigeria. DESIGN: Interviews. PATICIPANTS: Community-dwelling persons aged 65 and older. METHOD: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with a representative sample of community-dwelling persons aged 65 and older (N52,152) in the Yoruba-speaking areas of Nigeria (representing 22% of the national population). Major depressive disorder...
Abstract This study examined the prevalence of and factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder in recently diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa. One hundred and forty-nine (44 male, 105 female) recently diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients (mean duration since diagnosis/5.8 months, SD/4.1) were evaluated. Subjects were assessed using the MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), the Carver Brief COPE coping scale and the Sheehan Disability Scale. In addition, previous exp...
Abstract This study examined the prevalence of unprotected sex, other sexual risk behaviours, and factors associated with unprotected sex among men and women recently diagnosed with HIV in South Africa. One hundred and forty-nine outpatients (44 males and 105 females) were assessed, of whom 101 were sexually active at least 6 months prior to study entry. Subjects were asked about sexual risk behaviours with reference to their most recent sexual encounter. Logistic regression analysis was empl...
ABSTRACT There is increasing evidence that major depression impacts the course of HIV infection, yet few studies have explored demographic and clinical predictors of depression in people who with HIV/AIDS. This study investigated predictors of depression (e.g., demographic and clinical variables, negative life events, and coping response) among outpatients with recently diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa. One hundred forty-nine recently diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients (44 males and 105 f...
Abstract Background—Little is known about factors that determine the QoL of elderly persons living in developing societies undergoing rapid social changes. Method—A representative sample of elderly Nigerians, aged 65 years and over (n= 2152), was assessed for QoL using the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument (WHOQoLBref). Other than sociodemographic factors, respondents were also evaluated for major depressive disorder, physical conditions as well as for social network, s...
ABSTRACT This study examined the relationships between psychological contract breach, perceived justice and employee retaliatory behaviour and the moderating roles of religiosity and perceived psychological contract in informal organisational settings. A sample of 150 informal sector employees from ages sixteen to fifty-seven participated in the study. All participants responded to questionnaires on perceived psychological contract, psychological contract breach, perceived justice, employee r...
ABSTRACT We compared the premorbid social adjustment of 38 schizophrenic patients with that of 20 manic patients. Even though the small sample size affected the number of significant differences obtained, schizophrenic patients consistently showed evidence of poorer premorbid functioning than manics at various stages of social development. Schizophrenic men also tended to have functioned more poorly than women. Poor premorbid functioning was associated with negative syndrome, but not with pos...