Meaning and barriers to quality care service provision in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives.

Background: Defining quality in health presents many challenges. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defined quality clinical care as care that is equitable, timely, safe, efficient, effective and patient centred. However, it is not clear how different stakeholders within a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) understand and/or apply this framework.

Nigerian secondary school children's knowledge of and attitudes to mental health and illness.

Background: Children tend to lack knowledge of, and hold negative attitudes towards mental illness. However, most of the work undertaken in Nigeria has been done with adults.

Aims: To establish the views and knowledge about mental health and illness in pupils at four secondary schools in rural and urban Southwest Nigeria.

Children, adolescents and their carers' expectations of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

Background: The use of service users' views as performance indicators highlights the trend to make services more responsive to patients' needs. However, recent research indicates that there is a lack of clear understanding about specialist CAMHS and the outcomes that children, adolescents and their parents hope to achieve from treatment differ.

Aims: To explore children/young people's and parents/carers' expectations of CAMHS in Leicestershire, England.

Stigmatization of mental illness among Nigerian schoolchildren.

Background: Despite the fact that about 10% of children experience mental health problems, they tend to hold negative views about mental illness. The objective of this study was to investigate the views of Nigerian schoolchildren towards individuals with mental illness or mental health problems.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was used.