tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Psychological complications of childhood chronic physical illness in Nigerian children and their mothers: the implication for developing pediatric liaison services"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Psychological complications of childhood chronic physical illness in Nigerian children and their mothers: the implication for developing pediatric liaison services. | BioMed Central Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Psychological complications of childhood chronic physical illness in Nigerian children and their mothers the implication for developing pediatric liaison services Muideen O Bakare 1 Olayinka O Omigbodun2 Olugbenga B Kuteyi3 Martin M Meremikwu4 and Ahamefule O Agomoh5 Open Access Address 1Child and Adolescent Unit Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital New Haven Enugu Enugu State Nigeria 2Department of Psychiatry College of Medicine University of Ibadan Nigeria 3Child and Adolescent Unit Federal Psychiatric Hospital Calabar Nigeria 4Department of Pediatrics College of Medical Sciences University of Calabar Nigeria and 5General Forensic Psychiatry Unit Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital New Haven Enugu Enugu State Nigeria Email Muideen O Bakare - mobakare2000@ Olayinka O Omigbodun - fouryinkas@ Olugbenga B Kuteyi - obkuteyi@ Martin M Meremikwu - mmeremiku@ Ahamefule O Agomoh - ahamagomoh@ Corresponding author Published 19 November 2008 Received 16 July 2008 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008 2 34 doi 1753-2000-2-34 Accepted 19 November 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 34 2008 Bakare et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Pediatric liaison services attending to the psychological health needs of children with chronic physical illness are limited or virtually non-existent in Nigeria and most sub-Saharan African countries and psychological problems complicate chronic physical illness in these children and their mothers. There exist needs to bring into focus the public health importance of developing liaison services to