Publications by authors named "Hunde Tarafa"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study evaluates the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals toward depression in the Ilu Aba Bor zone of Ethiopia, revealing that 30.4% have inadequate knowledge and 29.9% hold negative attitudes toward the disorder.
  • - Most healthcare professionals (77.7%) have never received mental health training, suggesting a significant gap in education that contributes to their inadequate knowledge and negative attitudes.
  • - The findings highlight the need for primary healthcare facilities to enhance mental health awareness and training to improve the detection and treatment of depression.
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Background: Bullying victimization is a repetitive exposure to negative actions from one or more students over time. Bullying victim adolescents have higher levels of mental health problems, worse mental health outcomes, and lowered social status than non-victim adolescents. Literature on bullying among adolescents in Ethiopia is limited.

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Pregnancy-related anxiety (PRA) is an anxiety related to the pregnancy, involving labor and delivery, the well-being of the fetus/infant and the mother, the availability of quality of healthcare resources, and the capacity to parent. There is scarcity of study conducted on magnitude of Pregnancy-related anxiety and its associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia. The main objective of this research was to assess factors associated with Pregnancy-related anxiety among pregnant women attending ANC follow-up at Bedelle general and Metu Karl comprehensive specialized hospitals, Southwest Ethiopia.

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