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Who seeks child and adolescent mental
health care in Kenya? A descriptive clinic profile
at a tertiary referral facility
The presence of psychiatric morbidity in the child and adolescent age group is demonstrable in vari‐
ous studies conducted in various settings in Kenya. This study set out to determine the psychiatric morbidity and
socio-demographic profile of patients who eventually present for care at a tertiary specialist child and adolescent
mental health clinic in Kenya. Knowledge of the patterns of presentation of disorders is crucial for planning of service
scale up as well as serving as a useful training guide.
Psychiatric morbidity among HIV-infected children and adolescents in a resource-poor Kenyan urban community
The course of HIV/AIDS in children has been transformed from an acute to a chronic one with the advent of
Anti-Retroviral Therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric
morbidity in HIV-infected children and adolescents between 6 and 18 years of age and the relationship between
their socio-demographic factors, immune suppression and psychiatric morbidity.