Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms among Juvenile Offenders in Nigeria: Implications for Holistic Service Provisioning in Juvenile Justice Administration

There is hardly any study examining exposure to traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among juvenile justice populations in Nigeria or any part of sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the prevalence and trauma determinants of PTSD among a cohort of juvenile justice inmates in Nigeria...

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Published in:Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2014-08, Vol.25 (3), p.991-1004
Main Authors: Atilola, Olayinka, Omigbodun, Olayinka, Bella-Awusah, Tolulope
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Africa
Age
Children & youth
Cohort Studies
Gender
Health policy
Health services
Humans
Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Offenders
Medical screening
Mental health
Nigeria
Nigeria - epidemiology
Population
Post traumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Prisoners
Prisoners - psychology
Psychopathology
Public schools
Secondary schools
Stress
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Studies
Sub Saharan Africa
Symptoms
Teenagers
Young Adult
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Summary:There is hardly any study examining exposure to traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among juvenile justice populations in Nigeria or any part of sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the prevalence and trauma determinants of PTSD among a cohort of juvenile justice inmates in Nigeria, compared with a cohort of school-going adolescents. Ninety percent (90%) of the juvenile justice inmates reported exposure to at least one lifetime traumatic event with higher mean incident events, compared with 60% among the comparison group (p=.001). Juvenile justice inmates had significantly higher prevalence rate of current and lifetime PTSD than the comparison group (current: 5.8% vs. 1.4%; lifetime: 9.7% vs. 2.8%, p
ISSN:1049-2089
1548-6869
1548-6869
DOI:10.1353/hpu.2014.0116