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Post traumatic stress disorder among motor vehicle accident survivors attending the orthopaedic and trauma clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
(2004-07)
OBJECTIVES:
To determine the prevalence rate of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated risk factors among motor vehicle accident (MVA) survivors attending the orthopaedic and trauma clinic at Kenyatta National ...
Psychosocial and health aspects of drug use by students in public secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2009-03)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of family, psychosocial, health, demographic, and behavioral characteristics on regular drug use. All the students of 17 randomly stratified public secondary schools ...
The African Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health. The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Nairobi, pp 348-359
(2006)
Mice infected with Trypanosoma congolense developed a severe anaemia 1 week after infection, which persisted till treatment with diminazine aceturate when the packed cell volume (PCV) recovered to pre-infection levels. ...
Psychiatric morbidity among sexually abused children and adolescents.
(2008-02)
OBJECTIVES:
To describe the social demographic profile and identify psychiatric morbidity in sexually abused children and adolescents.
DESIGN:
A Cross-sectional descriptive survey.
SETTING:
Nairobi Women's Hospital ...
Psychometric properties of an African symptoms check list scale: the Ndetei-Othieno-Kathuku scale
(2006-05)
Objectives: To profile and quantify the psychometric properties of the NOK (Ndetei-Othieno-Kathuku) scale against internationally used Gold-standards and benchmarks for mild psychiatric disorders and post-traumatic stress ...
Traditional and Faith Healers’ Practices in Kangemi Informal Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Traditional Healers in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Perceived economic and behavioural effects of the mentally ill on their relatives in Kenya: a case study of the Mathari Hospital
(2009-11)
OBJECTIVE:
There is no documented evidence in Kenya on relatives' perceptions of economic and behavioural effects of the mentally ill patients and their coping mechanisms. To document what relatives of mentally ill patients ...