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People living with mental disorder in Nigeria amidst COVID‐19: Challenges, implications, and recommendations
Author(s) -
Aborode Abdullahi Tunde,
Corriero Anna Chiara,
Mehmood Qasim,
Nawaz Arisha,
Upadhyay Prashant,
Badri Rawa,
Hasan Mohammad Mehedi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.3394
Subject(s) - stigma (botany) , mental illness , mental health , pandemic , health care , covid-19 , obstacle , psychiatry , mental healthcare , disease , psychology , social stigma , public health , medicine , nursing , political science , family medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pathology
COVID‐19 has become a global public health obstacle. This disease has caused negligence on mental health institutions, decreased trust in the healthcare system and traditional and religious beliefs, and has created a widespread stigma on people living with mental health illness, specifically in Nigeria. The increase of COVID‐19 cases that have exhausted the healthcare system in Nigeria have brought further negligence to people living with mental disorder, thus increasing the burden of the disease on these patients. Overall, this article considerably highlighted the need for equal accessibility to healthcare resources, as well as the requirement of proper attention and care for mental health patients in Nigeria. This article discusses the challenges that surfaced because of the COVID‐19 pandemic on people living with mental illness and their implications, as well as suggesting necessary actions and recommendations.