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Obsessive-compulsive (oc) symptoms in psychiatric in-patients at Mathari hospital, Kenya.
(2008)
Objective: To document the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) among patients admitted at Mathari Psychiatric Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Method: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at the ...
Patterns of Drug Abuse in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2009-03)
The objective of this study was to establish the association between substance abuse and the sociodemographic characteristics of secondary school students. All the students of 17 randomly stratified public secondary schools ...
Outcome of a working diagnosis of "psychosis" in relation to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria in a Kenyan in-patient cohort at Mathari hospital, Nairobi
(2007)
Background:When a patient presents with mental illness and displays psychotic symptoms which are not clearly delineated, a clinical diagnosis of psychosis is usually entertained.
Aim: To determine the underlying Diagnostic ...