Mental Health Conditions of Women from the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon Related to the Secessionist Armed Conflict
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Abstract
Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate how the mental health conditions of women in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon are related to the secessionist armed conflict that has been ravaging these regions since the last quarter of 2016. Method: Three hundred and two women from four cities in the restive Anglophone regions of Cameroon and Douala, one of the Francophone regions, completed a questionnaire measuring PTSD. Results: Among the respondents, 74.8 percent were internally displaced, 55.3 percent had been kidnapped, and 36.1 percent had been raped during the conflict. Women who had been kidnapped or raped scored significantly higher than others on symptoms of PTSD. Kidnapped women reported fear, horror, anger, or shame, and trouble remembering the conflict. Women who had been raped scored higher than others on irritability, aggressivity, lack of experiencing positive or loving feelings, strong physical reactions when reminded of the conflict, and trouble remembering the conflict. A correlation was also found between symptoms of PTSD and age. Conclusions: The study revealed that the mental health conditions of women from the Anglophone regions of Cameroon are related to the secessionist armed conflict currently ravaging said regions. Key Words: Anglophone crisis, Human Rights, Internally displaced women, Kidnap, Rape, Mental Health.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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