The Medical Director of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, FNPH, Yaba, Dr Olugbenga Owoeye has raised the alarm that the downturn in the country’s economy has adversely affected the protective factors in mental health.
He said: “Several studies have associated worsening socio-economic factors with increased prevalence of mental disorders and improvement in socio-economic indices with enhanced mental health of the populace. The Scandinavian countries are known to have better socio-economic indices and more improved mental health status than most countries in the world.”
He stressed the need for health professionals to understand the various socio-economic factors impeding mental health service delivery and develop an evidence-based approach to ameliorating these conditions to improve the mental health status of the population as well as reduce the prevalence of mental health disorders to the barest minimum.
Adewuya lamented that all the groups contribute to decrease options and poor choices as well as physiological stress response and psychological stress which in turn leads to mental health problems.We have cleared all uncollected passports in Kwara – Comptroller NlS