Author:
Patel Vikram,Todd Charles,Winston Mark,Gwanzura Fungisai,Simunyu Essie,Acuda Wilson,Mann Anthony
Abstract
BackgroundThis study aimed to investigate the associations for common mental disorders (CMD) among primary care attenders in Harare.MethodThis was an unmatched case-control study of attenders at primary health clinics, general practitioner surgeries and traditional medical practitioner clinics; 199 cases with CMD as identified by an indigenously developed case-finding questionnaire, and 197 controls (non-cases), were interviewed using measures of sociodemographic data, disability, care-giver diagnoses and treatment, explanatory models, life events and alcohol use.ResultsCMD was associated with female gender (.=0.04) and older age (.=0.02). After adjustment for age, gender and site of recruitment, CMD was significantly associated with chronicity of illness; number of presenting complaints; beliefs in “thinking too much” and witchcraft as a causal model; economic impoverishment; infertility; recent unemployment; an unhappy childhood for females; disability; and consultations with traditional medical practitioners and religious priests.ConclusionsMental disorders are associated with female gender, disability, economic deprivation, and indigenous labels of distress states.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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