Epidemiological patterns of mental disorders and stigma in a community household survey in urban slum and rural settings in Kenya.

Mutiso VN, Musyimi CW, Tomita A, Loeffen L, Burns JK, Ndetei DM. Epidemiological patterns of mental disorders and stigma in a community household survey in urban slum and rural settings in Kenya. The International journal of social psychiatry. 2018 Dec;64(64). 120-129. PMID: 29258407 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC5836746 NIHMSID: NIHMS942984.

Abstract

This study investigated the epidemiological patterns of mental illness and stigma in community households in Kenya using a cross-sectional community household survey among 846 participants.