Mental health problems in women attending district-level services in South Africa

Pillay, Anand; Kriel, Anita Julia.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.01.031

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“…Poverty is thought to contribute to depression via its association with low self-esteem and agency, an increased number of stressful life events and chronic social adversity (Belle & Doucet, 2003;Moultrie & Kleintjes, 2006). The existing international and South African psychological literature strongly suggests that poor black and coloured women in particular are especially vulnerable to developing depression, with additional factors such as gender, race, class and motherhood all apparently increasing the risk of depression (Belle, 1990;Belle & Doucet, 2003;Kagee, 2008;Kehler, 2001;Kruger, van der Straaten, Taylor, Dukas, & Lourens, in press;Levy & O'Hara, 2010;Pillay & Kriel, 2006;Ramchandani, Richter, Stein, & Norris, 2009;Seekings, 2007;Stein et al, 2008;Tomlinson, Swartz, Cooper, & Molteno, 2004;Tomlinson et al, 2009;de Villiers, 2011).…”

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“…Bhagwanjee, Parekh, Paruk, Petersen, & Subedar, 1998;Cooper et al, 1999;Cooper et al, 2002;Cooper et al, 2009;Hamad, Fernald, Karlan, & Zinman, 2008;Manikkam & Burns, 2012;Naidoo & Mwaba, 2010;Nel & Kagee, 2013;Ngcobo & Pillay, 2008;Pappin, Wouters & Booysen, 2012;Peltzer & Phaswana-Mafuya, 2013;Peltzer & Shikwane, 2011;Pillay & Kriel, 2006;Rochat et al, 2006;Rochat, Tomlinson, Bärnighausen, Newell, & Stein, 2011;Stacey, 1999;Storkey, 2006;Theron, 2005).…”

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“…Pillay and Kriel (2006) concluded that almost 90% of the 422 South African women who utilised districtStellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za ! !…”

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“…In relation to the burden and nature of the mental health problems facing rural women in South Africa, Pillay and Kriel (2006) found that women presenting for psychological services reported relationship problems, depression, and suicidal behaviour. Over half of married women in this group reported spouses who were substance abusers and/or violent, and described their partners as disengaged.…”

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Contextualising women's mental distress and coping strategies in the time of AIDS: A rural South African case study

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Campbell

2014

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Increasing attention is paid to impacts of HIV/AIDS on women's mental health, often framed by decontextualized psychiatric understandings of emotional distress and treatment. We contribute to the small qualitative literature extending these findings through exploring HIV/AIDS-affected women's own accounts of their distress -focusing on the impacts of social context, and women's efforts to cope outside of medical support services. Nineteen indepth interviews were conducted with women experiencing depression or anxiety-like symptoms in a wider study of services in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Thematic analysis was framed by Summerfield's emphasis on contexts and resilience. Women highlighted family conflicts (particularly abandonment by men), community-level violence, poverty and HIV/AIDS as drivers of distress. Whilst HIV/AIDS placed significant burdens on women, poverty and relationship difficulties were more central in their accounts. Four coping mechanisms were identified. Women drew on indigenous local resources in their psychological re-framing of negative situations, and their mobilisation of emotional and financial support from inter-personal networks, churches and HIV support groups. Less commonly, they sought expert advice from traditional healers, medical services or social workers, but access to these was limited. Though all tried to supplement government grants with income generation efforts, only a minority regarded these as successful. Findings support on-going efforts to bolster strained mental health services with support groups which often offer valuable emotional and practical support. Without parallel poverty alleviation strategies however, support groups may sometimes offer little more than encouraging passive acceptance of the inevitability of suffering --potentially exacerbating the hopelessness underpinning women's distress

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“…Unfortunately, few studies have attempted to systematically assess mental health care needs in South Africa at the level of the community [3][4][5] and little information is available on risk factors associated with these problems [6]. Even fewer studies have assessed the prevalence of common mental health problems in primary care settings or at traditional healers [7][8][9]. An epidemiological study conducted by Bhagwanjee et al [4] among rural African adults in Kwa-Zulu Natal, revealed an unexpectedly high prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders amongst adults.…”

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Common mental health problems in historically disadvantaged urban and rural communities in South Africa: prevalence and risk factors

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Mental health problems in women attending district-level services in South Africa

Cited by 14 publications

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A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women

Contextualising women's mental distress and coping strategies in the time of AIDS: A rural South African case study

Common mental health problems in historically disadvantaged urban and rural communities in South Africa: prevalence and risk factors

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