title: Psychiatric morbidity in mothers of children attending primary care facility in Ilorin, Nigeria: drawing attention to those affected concurrently with their children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among mothers of children attending a primary care clinic in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital as precursor to developing an intervention programme.
  
  
  METHODS
  WThree hundred fifty mothers of children aged 7-14 years were screened with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire for psychiatric morbidity. As part of the larger study, their children were screened for psychiatric disorders with the parents' version of the Child Behaviour Questionnaire, and a subsample of 157 mother/child dyad had second-stage interview with the children's version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia to determine psychiatric morbidity in these children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-eight out of 350 mothers (8%) had probable psychiatric morbidity. Mothers with psychiatric morbidity were significantly more likely to have children with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fourth Edition psychiatric diagnosis (8 of 28, P=0.011), experience parenting difficulties with some of their children (13 of 28, P=0.000) and have poor husband support for the care of their children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The presence of psychiatric morbidity in mothers may require that other members of the family especially the children be screened for psychiatric disorders particularly when there are parenting difficulties and poor spousal support; in this way primary prevention or control can effectively be carried out.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Olatunji Alao
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Abiodun
authors.forename: Mosunmola Florence
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Tunde-Ayinmode
authors.forename: Olusola Abejide
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Adegunloye
authors.forename: Babatunde Ademola
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Ayinmode
authors.forename: Dauda
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sulyman
authors.forename: Ngozi Nneka
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Unaogu
authors.forename: Rasaq Oyelami
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Saliu
authors.forename: Sunday
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sajo
authors.forename: Rilwan A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Salami
authors.forename: Mohammed Kehinde
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Jimba
authors.forename: Taiwo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Agbabiaka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires