Developing mental health services in Nigeria : the impact of a community-based mental health awareness programme.

Julian Eaton ORCID logo; Ahamefula O Agomoh; (2008) Developing mental health services in Nigeria : the impact of a community-based mental health awareness programme. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 43 (7). pp. 552-558. ISSN 0933-7954 DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0321-5
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This grass-roots level mental health awareness programme considerably increased use of community-based mental health services in a part of Nigeria where knowledge about treatability of mental illness was limited. The benefits of the programme were sustained for a significant period after the initial awareness programme. In order for attitude changes to be reinforced, similar awareness programmes must be repeated at regular intervals.

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