dc.contributor.author | Gatang'i, ASM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-24T08:51:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-24T08:51:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Masters of Medicine (Psychiatry) | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/25262 | |
dc.description.abstract | As in other parts of the World, the problem of
juvenile delinquency seems to be on the increase and is
currently causing a lot of concern not only to the
authorities but also to teachers, parents and health workers.
Since it is known that juvenile delinquency can be
a symptom or a result of emotional disturbance in the
adolescent, this study was designed to investigate possible
psychiatric disorders in children committed to an Approved
School in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as to describe the
socio~demographic background of such children with the
overall objective of making recommendations to the Children's
department, depending on-the findings.
E very other child in the Approved school was randomly
selected from the school Register and examined by the author.
The main findings were: -
(1) 2458% of the children had psychiatric illne'3s2s
mainly the psychcneuroses.
(2) The majority of the children were physically healthy and
those with physical illnees (i. e. 16.4 %) had
mainly Upper Respiratory Tract Infection which is
usually common in Kenya during the cold months
of the year.
(3)· The majority psychiatric illnesses i.e. Schizophrenia,
affective psychosis and epilepsy constituted only
1.2% each.
(4) Contrary to findings elsewhere, the majority of
the children came from intact, though large
families (65% of the parents were married a:
the time of the study).
It is recommended that a multidisciplinary approach
towards dealing with juvenile delinquency together wit~
decentralization of services for such children along
Primary Health Care cencepts and the setting up of a
Juvenile Court in each District in the country would be more
beneficial to the children. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | Psychiatric morbidity in children and young persons admitted into an approved school in Nairobi | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
local.publisher | School of Computing and Informatics | en |