Integrating Mental Health Screening into Routine Community Maternal and Child Health Activity: Experience from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria.

Authors

• Theddeus Iheanacho, Yale Univeristy School of Medicine
• Michael Obiefune, Training and Research-Global Solutions-PeTR-GS
• Chinenye O. Ezeanolue, Sunrise Foundation
• Gbenga Ogedegbe, New York University
• Okey C. Nwanyanwu, United States Center for Diseases Control and Prevention
• John E. Ehiri, University of Arizona
• Jude Ohaeri, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital
• Echezona E. Ezeanolue, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-9-2014

Publication Title

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volume

50

Issue

3

First page number:

489

Last page number:

495

Abstract

Although the prevalence of mental health disorders in Nigeria is comparable to most developed countries, access to mental health care in Nigeria is limited. Improving access to care requires innovative approaches that deliver mental health interventions at the community level. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of integrating mental health screening into an existing community-based program for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV targeted at pregnant women and their male partners.

Keywords

Mental health screening; General Health Questionnaire12; Community and church-based screening; Adult Nigerians; Low-and middle-income countries (LMIC); PMTCT; Maternal and child health

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Repository Citation

Iheanacho, T., Obiefune, M., Ezeanolue, C. O., Ogedegbe, G., Nwanyanwu, O. C., Ehiri, J. E., Ohaeri, J., Ezeanolue, E. E. (2014). Integrating Mental Health Screening into Routine Community Maternal and Child Health Activity: Experience from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) trial in Nigeria.. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 50(3), 489-495.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0952-7