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Community and Individual Sense of Trust and Psychological Distress among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana

Kushitor, Mawuli K., Peterson, Maame B., Asante, Paapa Yaw, Dodoo, Naa Dodua, Boatemaa, Sandra, Awuah, Raphael Baffour, Agyei, Francis, Sakyi, Lionel, Dodoo, F. Nii- Amoo, Aikins, Ama de-Graft

Background: Mental health disorders present significant health challenges in populations in sub Saharan Africa especially in deprived urban poor contexts. Some studies have suggested that in collectivistic societies such as most African societies people can draw on social capital to attenuate the effect of community st...

Faculty Research and Publications Journal Articles 2018 9 views 3 downloads 1 file