Mental health literacy: Perspectives from Northern Kenya Turkana adolescents

Abstract

Mental illness accounts for high levels of morbidity, mortality and poor quality of life among young people. Depression, anxiety, conduct issues and hyperactive disorder account for 13% of the global burden of disease that affects one in seven adolescents. In Kenya, not much is documented about the mental health of non-school-going adolescents, and yet they make up about 1.8 million of the country’s population.

Keywords

• adolescents
• Kenya
• depression
• anxiety
• schizophrenia