Prevalence and determinants of mental health among an indigent population in rural Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional study
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Abstract
Background In Burkina Faso, prevalence of mental health disorders and the characteristics of people living with these disorders are scarce, especially among the poorest. Methods This study aims at providing a descriptive portrait of the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and their determinants among indigent individuals living in rural Burkina Faso. A cross-sectional design was chosen, using a stratified sampling procedure. A questionnaire comprising 73 questions was administered to 1314 respondents. Results Mental health symptoms were grouped into three types: anxiodepressive, somatic and psychotic. A total of 1234 (93.9 %) participants reported having experienced at least one anxiodepressive symptom and 1087 (82.7%) respondents reported at least one somatic symptom one month prior to the interview. Furthermore, 256 (19.5%) participants reported at least one psychotic symptom in their lifetime. Differences in the expression of distress between regions were noted as well as a feeling of exclusion among respondents to their communities were common to all symptomatic profiles, which opens up avenues of targeted intervention for future equitable mental health policies. Conclusions The mental health action plan 2014-2018 in Burkina Faso 7 identified the lack of evidence in mental health as one of the most salient issues. This study contributes to addressing this limitation and participates in the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) by providing knowledge on the prevalence of symptoms of mental health disorders in a vulnerable population living in rural areas.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".