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Traumatic experiences have dire consequences for the mental health of young persons. Despite high rates of traumatic experiences in some African cities, there are no reports for Nigerian youth. ## Objective: To investigate the pattern of traumatic events and their association with depressive symptoms among youth in southwest nigeria. ## Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study of randomly selected youth in urban and rural schools in southwest nigeria. they completed self-reports on traumatic events and depressive symptoms using the street children's project questionnaire and the youth disc predictive scale (dps). ## Results: Of the 1,768 responses (88.4% response rate) entered into the analysis, 34% reported experiencing a traumatic situation. following interpretative phenomenological analysis, 13 themes emerged. frequently occurring traumatic events were 'road traffic accidents' (33.0%), 'sickness' (17.1%), 'lost or trapped' (11.2%) and 'armed robbery attack' (9.7%). a bad dream was described by 3.7%. traumatic experiences were commoner in males (36.2%) than in females (31.6%) (x2 = 4.2; p = .041). experiencing a traumatic event was associated with depressive symptoms

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Author

Olayinka Omigbodun; Kofoworola Bakare; Bidemi Yusuf

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)