A5115004198- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Child and Adolescent Health
The Millennium University
2025
Millennium Engineering and Integration (United States)
2025
Blantyre Institute for Community Ophthalmology
2024
ABSTRACT In Malawi, it is difficult to promote positive mental health due poverty, cultural beliefs, and stigma associated with illness. Mental literacy (MHL) not integrated into the education system despite evidence suggesting educational settings as ideal deliver MHL programmes. Stakeholder input crucial during development of interventions. This paper reports on our work diverse stakeholders culturally adapt a course (MHLc) for implementation in Malawi universities. The MHLc structure...
<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background</bold> Mental health literacy (MHL) in Malawi is low. illness often attributed to substance abuse or spirit possession, resulting stigma, maltreatment, and discrimination towards people with mental problems. Inadequacies Malawi's services workforce increase limited treatment access, knowledge, negative attitudes, causing an epidemic of use suicides. MHL foundational for promotion, prevention illness, stigma reduction. Educational settings are ideal...
Mental health literacy is the ability to recognise mental disorders, have knowledge of professional help available, effective self-help strategies, prevention and skills support others. linked better help-seeking behaviours management illness. The prevalence illness in Malawi increasing. Assessing communities crucially helps identify gaps, informing development evidence-based interventions. This study assessed levels young adults (16-to-30 years old) rural urban Malawi. A cross-sectional...