Gender Based Violence among Married Persons in Awka Town from a Glocalizing Context: A Comparative Study of Mental Health and Loneliness

Nwankwo, Emeka; Mabia, Chidozie Emmanuel; Eweni, Henry Ikemefuna; Obasi, Ifeanyi Michael; Ezeakabekwe, Samuel Uche

doi:10.9734/arjass/2020/v11i430175

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“…As such, we used the SWEMWBS tool with its 7 positively structured statements [45], which focuses on well-being instead of diagnosing a mental health condition and has been validated in a range of populations [38][39][40]. In addition, both the 7 and 14 item WEMWBS questions have been used in Nigeria previously [46][47][48], although we could not find a formal translation or validation within a Hausa-Fulani population.…”

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Maternal mental well-being and recent child illnesses–A cross-sectional survey analysis from Jigawa State, Nigeria

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Bakare²,

Colbourn³

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Child health indicators in Northern Nigeria remain low. The bidirectional association between child health and maternal well-being is also poorly understood. We aim to describe the association between recent child illness, socio-demographic factors and maternal mental well-being in Jigawa State, Nigeria. We analysed a cross-sectional household survey conducted in Kiyawa local government area, Jigawa State, from January 2020 to March 2020 amongst women aged 16–49 with at least one child under-5 years. We used two-stage random sampling. First, we used systematic random sampling of compounds, with the number of compounds based on the size of the community. The second stage used simple random sampling to select one eligible woman per compound. Mental well-being was assessed using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Score (SWEMWBS). We used linear regression to estimate associations between recent child illness, care-seeking and socio-demographic factors, and mental well-being. Overall 1,661 eligible women were surveyed, and 8.5% had high mental well-being (metric score of 25.0–35.0) and 29.5% had low mental well-being (metric score of 7.0–17.9). Increasing wealth quintile (adj coeff: 1.53; 95% CI: 0.91–2.15) not being a subsistence farmer (highest adj coeff: 3.23; 95% CI: 2.31–4.15) and having a sick child in the last 2-weeks (adj coeff: 1.25; 95% CI: 0.73–1.77) were significantly associated with higher mental well-being. Higher levels of education and increasing woman’s age were significantly associated with lower mental well-being. Findings contradicted our working hypothesis that a recently sick child would be associated with lower mental well-being. We were surprised that education and late marriage, which are commonly attributed to women’s empowerment and autonomy, were not linked to better well-being here. Future work could focus on locally defined tools to measure well-being reflecting the norms and values of communities, ensuring solutions that are culturally acceptable and desirable to women with low mental well-being are initiated.

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