Mental health services in Nepal: Is it too late?

Simkhada, Padam; Teijlingen, Edwin van; Marahatta, Sujan Babu

doi:10.3126/jmmihs.v1i4.12012

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“…In Nepal, mental health services receive insignificant attention at all levels of society, from the government to the general public. This is despite studies showing that mental health problems account for a significant proportion of the global burden of disease [ 12 ].…”

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Depression among Adolescents of Rural Nepal: A Community-Based Study

Gautam

Dahal

Ghimire

et al. 2021

Depression Research and Treatment

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This community-based study is aimed at finding out the prevalence of depression, and its correlates among adolescents of rural Nepal. Data were collected among adolescents after multistage stratified proportionate random sampling by using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) to assess the depression among adolescent. Chi-square test and logistic regression model were applied. The prevalence of depression was found to be 27%. Adolescents who were not satisfied with their academic performance were 2.4 times more likely to have the risk of depression ( AOR = 2.417 , CI: 1.097-5.326). Likewise, tobacco users were almost fourteen times ( AOR = 13.858 , CI: 2.090-91.90), who intended to harm themselves were two times ( AOR = 2.323 , CI: 1.078-5.005), sleep deprivation were fifteen folds ( AOR = 14.911 , CI: 7.376-30.145), often scolded by their parents was almost three times ( AOR = 2.931 , CI: 1.195-7.436), and having poor relationship with friends were 2.4 times more likely ( AOR = 2.371 , CI: 1.078-5.215) of having depression. Sleep deprivation has a long-term negative impact on health leading depression.

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confidence: 98%

Depression among Adolescents of Rural Nepal: A Community-Based Study

Gautam

Dahal

Ghimire

et al. 2021

Depression Research and Treatment

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“…Editorials can also comment on political, social, cultural or economic events, hot topics or technical or legal developments that are particularly relevant to the academic discipline represented by the journal [5]. For example, two of us got together with various midwifery colleagues to write about the Millennium Development Goals coming to an end in 2015 [11] and about mental health policies in Nepal [12]. More recently several of us wrote about the COVD-19 pandemic when it first occurred [13][14][15][16].…”

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The Art of the Editorial

Teijlingen

Hundley

Sathian

et al. 2022

Nepal J Epidemiology

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Many traditional scientific journals carry an editorial at the start of each issue or perhaps in most issues. The more recently established online journals seemed to have discontinued this tradition, for example there is no editorial in Sociological Research Online or many of the online journals in the BMC stable, such as BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth or BMC Public Health. Over the past two decades we have published close to fifty editorials between us. We would like to highlight some of their specific features to offer advice and encouragement to would-be editorial writers, and, more generally, promote the writing and publishing of editorials. This paper includes an overview of the eight most recent editorials, all focusing on the hot topic of COVID-19, published in this scientific journal.

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