Stigma and utilization of treatment for adolescent perinatal depression in Ibadan Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is a common and severe disorder among low-income adolescent mothers in low-and middle-income countries where resources for treatment are limited. We wished to identify factors influencing health service utilization for adolescent perinatal depression, in Nigeria to inform new strategies of care delivery.

Methods

Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were conducted among purposively selected low-income young mothers (with medical histories of adolescent perinatal depression), and separately with primary care clinicians treating this condition in Ibadan, Nigeria. Participants from this community-based study were from the database of respondents who participated in a previous randomized control trial (RCT) conducted between 2014 and 2016 in 28 primary health care

SUBMITTER: Kola L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7226964 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature