Pathways to psychiatric care for children and adolescents at a tertiary facility in northern Nigeria

• Egile Nagusiak: Jibril O. Abdulmalik (Egilea), Shehu Sale (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: AOSIS, 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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There is limited availability of mental health services in Nigeria, and indeed most of Africa. Available services are also often under-utilized because of widespread ignorance and supernatural beliefs about the etiology of mental illnesses. The consequence, therefore, is a long and tedious pathway t...