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Recognition of depression in children in general hospital-based paediatric units in Kenya practice and policy implications 英文参考文献.doc

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Recognition of depression in children in general hospital-based paediatric units in Kenya practice and policy implications 英文参考文献

Annals of General Psychiatry BioMedCentral Primary research Open Access Recognition of depression in children in general hospital-based paediatric units in Kenya: practice and policy implications David M Ndetei*, Lincoln I Khasakhala, Victoria N Mutiso and Anne W Mbwayo Address: Africa Mental Health Foundation (AMHF), Nairobi, Kenya Email: David M Ndetei* - dmndetei@uonbi.ac.ke; Lincoln I Khasakhala - likhasakhala@; Victoria N Mutiso - vmutiso@; Anne W Mbwayo - annembwayo@ * Corresponding author Published: 28 October 2009 Received: 23 July 2009 Accepted: 28 October 2009 Annals of General Psychiatry 2009, 8:25 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-8-25 This article is available from: /content/8/1/25 ? 2009 Ndetei et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Physical disorders are commonly comorbid with depression in children attending general medical facilities. However, the depression component is rarely recognised. Methods: A questionnaire on sociodemographics and history of presenting medical conditions was administered together with the Childrens Depression Inventory (CDI) to all 11-year-old to 17-year-old children attending at nine medical facilities. Results: In all, 408 children were recruited from 9 health facilities. Whereas the clinicians diagnosed a mental disorder in only 2.5% of the sample studied, 41.3% had CDI scores that suggested mild to moderate depression. The highest proportion of children with depressive symptomatology was found at the Kenyatta National and Teaching Referral Hospital. Conclusion: Although prevalence rate for depression among children is high, detection rates remain low. This finding has clinical practice a