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Depression and its psychosocial risk factors in pregnant Kenyan adolescents: a cross-sectional study in a community health Centre of Nairobi

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, May 2018
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Title
Depression and its psychosocial risk factors in pregnant Kenyan adolescents: a cross-sectional study in a community health Centre of Nairobi
Published in
BMC Psychiatry, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12888-018-1706-y
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Authors

Judith Osok, Pius Kigamwa, Ann Vander Stoep, Keng-Yen Huang, Manasi Kumar

Abstract

Adolescent pregnancies within urban resource-deprived settlements predispose young girls to adverse mental health and psychosocial adversities, notably depression. Depression in sub-Saharan Africa is a leading contributor to years lived with disability (YLD). The study's objective was to determine the prevalence of depression and related psychosocial risks among pregnant adolescents reporting at a maternal and child health clinic in Nairobi, Kenya. A convenient sample of 176 pregnant adolescents attending antenatal clinic in Kangemi primary healthcare health facility participated in the study. We used PHQ-9 to assess prevalence of depression. Hierarchical multivariate linear regression was performed to determine the independent predictors of depression from the psychosocial factors that were significantly associated with depression at the univariate analyses. Of the 176 pregnant adolescents between ages 15-18 years sampled in the study, 32.9% (n = 58) tested positive for a depression diagnosis using PHQ-9 using a cut-off score of 15+. However on multivariate linear regression, after various iterations, when individual predictors using standardized beta scores were examined, having experienced a stressful life event (B = 3.27, P = 0.001, β =0.25) explained the most variance in the care giver burden, followed by absence of social support for pregnant adolescents (B = - 2.76, P = 0.008, β = - 0.19), being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS (B = 3.81, P = 0.004, β =0.17) and being young (B = 2.46, P = 0.038, β =0.14). Depression is common among pregnant adolescents in urban resource-deprived areas of Kenya and is correlated with well-documented risk factors such as being of a younger age and being HIV positive. Interventions aimed at reducing or preventing depression in this population should target these groups and provide support to those experiencing greatest stress.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 359 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 70 19%
Researcher 32 9%
Student > Bachelor 32 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 6%
Other 49 14%
Unknown 130 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 60 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 55 15%
Psychology 33 9%
Social Sciences 29 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 3%
Other 34 9%
Unknown 138 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 May 2021.
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#3,719,847
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#1,356
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#73,436
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychiatry
#62
of 129 outputs
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