Citation

Ajiboye PO, Yussuf AD, Issa BA, Adegunloye OA, Buhari ON. Research Journal of Medical Sciences 2009; 3(1): 26-30.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009)

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Abstract

Chronic and violent juvenile offending. has been asslociated with adverse health, educational, vocational and interpersonal consequences with repercussion seen into adulthood. Youths with mental disorders pose a challenge for the juvenile system and after their release for the larger mental health system. This study investigated current and lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in a Borstal home in Nigeria. The study is a cross-sectional, descriptive one and reports exclusively on the 53 youths, aged 14-21 years, remanded at the Juvenile Borstal Institution in Ilorin, the Kwara state Capital. The inmates were interviewed using MINI-KID. The mean age±SD of the inmates was 17.3±2.1 years. Majority of them (52.8%) were between 18-21 years of age. Current psychiatric diagnoses were made in 67.6% of them and lifetime diagnoses made in 64.2% of the inmates. Recommendation is made for early detection and treatment of these psychiatric disorders. © Medwell Journals, 2009.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; Nigeria; child; male; alcoholism; Mental health; depression; prevalence; psychosis; suicide attempt; posttraumatic stress disorder; conduct disorder; substance abuse; article; mental disease; dysthymia; juvenile delinquency; panic; cannabis addiction; Juvenile offenders; hypomania; attention deficit disorder; Inmates; obsessive compulsive disorder; separation anxiety; cocaine dependence; Lifetime; oppositional defiant disorder; Borstal institution; Current