Assessing adolescent mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries

Adolescent mental disorders pose a substantial global health challenge,1 profoundly impacting current and future quality of life.2 By intervening at a young age, when most mental disorders emerge, we can prevent a substantial burden on health-care systems and ease long-term suffering for individuals...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2024-04, Vol.403 (10437), p.1609-1611
Main Author: Onie, Sandersan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Adolescents
Caregivers
Data collection
Epidemiology
Global health
Income
Low income groups
Mental disorders
Mental health
Public health
Quality of life
Self destructive behavior
Suicides & suicide attempts
Teenagers
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Summary:Adolescent mental disorders pose a substantial global health challenge,1 profoundly impacting current and future quality of life.2 By intervening at a young age, when most mental disorders emerge, we can prevent a substantial burden on health-care systems and ease long-term suffering for individuals and their families.2,3 However, addressing this issue on a population level requires reliable prevalence data, often missing in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).4 Despite earnest efforts, current attempts to obtain prevalence data in LMICs face limitations due to high costs relative to available funding, and the need for extensive networks and labour for representative, large-scale epidemiological studies. [...]many epidemiological studies do not have representative estimates. [...]given the high cost, future research can also explore scaling down and decreasing the resources needed to obtain representative data and allow for continued data collection in low-resource settings.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02711-3