Publications by authors named "Gari Hunduma"

Aims: This study aims to assess the dynamics of in-school adolescents' mental health problems in Harari regional state, eastern Ethiopia for a year.

Materials And Methods: Using multistage sampling technique, we conducted a year-long longitudinal study at three public high schools between March 2020 and 2021. Three hundred fifty-eight in-school adolescents were chosen by systematic random sampling for the baseline assessment, and 328 completed the follow-up assessment.

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Adolescent's mental health issues are a major social burden and a significant public health issue, but they have not received enough attention in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of internalizing and externalizing mental health problems among in-school adolescents in the Harari region, eastern Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 3227 in-school adolescents.

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Background: Depressive disorder is one of the severe and common mental illnesses in the general population. Bipolar disorder is a severe, persistent mental illness associated with significant morbidity and mortality. However, there is a paucity of data on the prevalence of depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder in our study area.

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Aims: This study aimed to examine the association between mental health problems and health-related quality of life (HrQoL) among in-school adolescents 13-19 years in the Harari region, eastern Ethiopia.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 3227 in-school adolescents aged 13 to 19 using multistage sampling. The KIDSCREEN-10 questionnaire assessed health-related quality of life (HrQoL), while a self-administered version of the strength and difficulty questionnaire (SDQ) examined mental health issues.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study focused on the relationship between social capital and mental health among adolescents in Harari Regional State, Ethiopia, a context often overlooked in research.
  • Researchers surveyed 3,227 students aged 13-19, using questionnaires to assess mental health issues and levels of social capital, finding that 22.93% of students had mental health problems.
  • Results indicated that increased social support—such as friendships and trust in the community—was linked to lower mental health issues, suggesting that fostering social connections could help improve adolescents' mental well-being.
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: This review examined the prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. The review included studies indexed in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO databases, supplemented by a search on Google Scholar and tracking of references from articles identified. A total of 725 articles were found, of which 28 met the inclusion criteria.

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Purpose: To assess the prevalence and determinants of current tobacco use among reproductive-age women in Ethiopia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted by utilizing secondary data taken from the Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey of 2016. Descriptive statistics and logistic regressions were used to analyze the data.

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Background: In developed countries, there are well documented mental health impacts of HIV/AIDS and patients' quality of life. Acquiring HIV/AIDS can be a serious psychological trauma and can predispose a person to different mental disorders. Co-occurring mental illness complicates diagnosis, help-seeking, quality of care provided, treatment outcomes and adherence.

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Introduction: Common mental disorders include depression, anxiety and somatoform disorders are a public health problem in developed as well as developing countries. It represents a psychiatric morbidity with significant prevalence, affecting all stages of life and cause suffering to the individuals, their family and communities. Despite this fact, little information about the prevalence of common mental illness is available from low and middle-income countries including Ethiopia.

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