Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria.

Sonny John KumbetTijani Idris Ahmad OseniMagdalene Mensah-BonsuFatima Mohammed DamagumEdwina Beryl Addo Opare-LokkoEve NamisangoAbdulGafar Lekan OlawumiOnyenwe Chibuike EphraimBenjamin Aweh

Published in: PloS one (2023)

Family Physicians in Nigeria and Ghana attend to a good number of adolescents with mental health disorders in their clinics. There is the need for Family Physicians to have specialized training and retraining to be able to recognize and treat adolescent mental health disorders. This will help to reduce stigmatization and improve the management of the disease thus, reducing the burden.

Keyphrases

mental health
primary care
young adults
mental illness
palliative care
physical activity
childhood cancer