The unmet need for mental health support among persons with disabilities in Somalia: Principal correlates and barriers to access.

ABSTRACT: Disability and mental ill-health may be especially prevalent in Somalia, largely due to a protracted armed conflict and its consequent humanitarian crises. Little, if any, research to date, however, has simultaneously explored disability- and mental health-related factors in the Somali context. Using both descriptive and regression analytical techniques, we aimed to determine how increasing levels of functional impairment reported across different disability domains (i.e., visual, hearing and cognition), number of concomitant disabilities, and other empirically supported variables (such as employment and sex) are associated with the likelihood of self-identifying the need for mental health support among a sample (N = 1,355) of Somalis with disabilities, as well as identify the commo

SUBMITTER: Zemp C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11383976 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature