Distress, desperation and despair: anxiety, depression and suicidality among rural South African youth

Mngoma, Nomusa; Ayonrinde, Oyedeji; Fergus, Stevenson; Jeeves, Alan H.; Jolly, Rosemary

doi:10.1080/09540261.2020.1741846

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“…Those respondents with a current history of depression had AOR 2.37 95% CI (1.60–3.52) more likely to show suicidal behavior, which was in- line with the previous studies conducted in Germany [ 39 ], South Africa [ 40 ], and meta-analysis done in Sub-Saharan African countries (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana and Burkina Faso) [ 41 ].…”

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The prevalence of suicidal behavior and its associated factors among wives with polygamy marriage living in Gedeo zone, southern Ethiopia, 2020

Kassaw

Shumye

2021

PLoS ONE

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Introduction Polygamy is a trend of marriage characterized by having two and more wives or husbands at the same time. In low and middle-income countries including Ethiopia, polygamy has a significant negative effect on the social, economic, physical, and mental well-being of women. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of suicidal behavior among wives with polygamy marriage living in the Gedeo zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2020. Methods A community-based study employing cross-sectional design and systematic sampling technique was used to select wives with polygamy marriage who are residents of Gedeo Zone from November to December 2020. The World Health Organization Suicidal Behavior Questions (SBQ-5) was adapted to explore the outcome variable. The Logistic regression at 95% CI, p<0.05 was used to identify factors associated with suicidal behavior. Results This study enrolled 423 respondents. The study revealed that, the overall prevalence of suicidal behavior was 157(37%). Illiteracy, being a wife of a husband with three and more other wives, current history of depression, intimate partner violence, and poor social support were significantly associated with suicidal behavior at 95% confidence interval, p < 0.05. Conclusion This study found that one-third of the respondents had suicidal behavior. Different significant socio-demographic and psychosocial variables were identified. Thus, due attention should be given to minimize the practice and its effect on the mental wellbeing of a mother and their children.

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The prevalence of suicidal behavior and its associated factors among wives with polygamy marriage living in Gedeo zone, southern Ethiopia, 2020

Kassaw

Shumye

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…Despair and loneliness based on isolation might increase depressive symptoms (Başterzi et al, 2021 ). It is well known that depression and loneliness are significantly associated (Janjani et al, 2017 ; Mngoma et al, 2020 ; Padmanabhanunni & Pretorius, 2021 ; van der Velden et al, 2021 ). Therefore, it might be concluded that the two‐paired interactions between despair, loneliness and depression affected moods.…”

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Fear of COVID‐19, stress and depression: A meta‐analytic test of the mediating role of anxiety

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Griffiths

2022

Psychol Psychother

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Objectives The COVID‐19 pandemic has negatively affected the lives of millions of individuals physiologically, behaviorally, socially, and/or psychologically. Moreover, there is now much empirical evidence that mental health problems have increased during the pandemic period and these problems have various consequences. The changes in the mood states of individuals due to the pandemic underpins the rationale of the present study. The aim of the study was to identify the cross‐sectional associations between fear of COVID‐19, stress, anxiety, and depression by using two stage‐meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (TS‐MASEM). Design This is a meta‐analytic structural equation modelling study. Method A systematic literature review initially identified 4840 studies. As a result of applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 25 studies comprising 28 samples (reporting 120 effect sizes) were eligible for inclusion in the current TS‐MASEM ( N = 16,452). Results The results showed significant associations between fear of COVID‐19, stress, anxiety, and depression. Additionally, the mediation role of anxiety in the association between depression and fear of COVID‐19 and stress was explored. Conclusions Although the results did not allow for causal inferences regarding depression, they provide insight into the possible consequences of fear of COVID‐19 and comorbid problems for clinicians and researchers.

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“…In years’ worth of interviewing young men about their attitudes towards HIV and gender-based violence, despair emerged as a key driver of HIV illness in the region ( Mngoma et al 2021 ). Young men were asking, what is the point of taking antiretroviral therapy when there is no life ahead of them in terms of education, jobs and other forms of opportunity?…”

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Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism

Jolly

2022

Med Humanities

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This paper brings together fifth-wave public health theory and a decolonised approach to the human informed by the Caribbean thinker, Sylvia Wynter, and the primary exponent of African Humanism, Es’kia Mpahlele. Sub-Saharan indigenous ways of thinking the human as co-constitutive in a subject we might call human-animal-‘environment’, in conjunction with the subcontinent’s experiences of colonial damage in disease ‘prevention’ and ‘treatment’, demonstrate the lack of genuine engagement with Indigenous wisdom in Western medical practice.The paper offers a decolonial reading of pandemic history, focused primarily on the human immunodefiency virus (HIV), the severe acute respiratory syndrome of 2003 caused by the SARS Covid 1 virus (SARS-CoV1) and COVID-19, caused by the SARS COVID 2 virus (SARS-CoV2) to demonstrate the importance of the co-constitutive subject in understanding the genesis of these pandemics as driven by colonial-capitalism. I emphasise that prevention will indeed take the kinds of massive changes proposed by fifth-wave public health theory. However, I differ from the proponents of that theory in an insistence that the new kind of thinking of the human Hanlon et al call for, has already been conceived: just not within the confines of the normative human of Western culture.I illustrate that Western Global Health approaches remain constitutionally ‘deaf’ to approaches that, although the West may not understand this to be the case, arise from fundamentally different—and extra-anthropocentric—notions of the human. In this context, Man as Wynter names Him is a subject ripe for decolonisation, rather than a premier site of capitalist development, including that of healthcare provision.Recognising that most of us are not individually able to change the structural violence of the colonial capitalist system in which Global Health practices are embedded, I conclude with implications drawn from my argument for quotidian practices that enable healthcare providers see their actions within a harm reduction paradigm, in the context of communities experiencing intergenerational impoverishment consequent on colonial violence.

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Distress, desperation and despair: anxiety, depression and suicidality among rural South African youth

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

The prevalence of suicidal behavior and its associated factors among wives with polygamy marriage living in Gedeo zone, southern Ethiopia, 2020

The prevalence of suicidal behavior and its associated factors among wives with polygamy marriage living in Gedeo zone, southern Ethiopia, 2020

Fear of COVID‐19, stress and depression: A meta‐analytic test of the mediating role of anxiety

Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism

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