Prevalence of mental disorders among young people living in urban slums of low- and middle- income countries: A systematic review and Meta-analysis
Tolulope Bella-Awusah, Oluwabunmi Fola – Bolumole, Sagar Jilka, Ursula Read, Olayinka Omigbodun, Swaran Singh, Domenico Giacco · 2026
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Tolulope Bella-Awusah leads a 2026 systematic review of mental illness rates among young people who live in city slums across low- and middle-income countries. Slum conditions stack poverty, crowding, and violence onto the years when many disorders first appear. The review screened nearly four thousand records across seven databases, with the search updated to March 2026.
Twenty-four studies covering 26,794 young people were pooled. Depression affected 31 percent, anxiety disorders 35 percent, post-traumatic stress 24 percent, and alcohol use disorders 23 percent in the pooled estimates, though studies varied enormously. Food insecurity and exposure to violence were the risk factors named most often. Support from adults and feeling connected to the neighbourhood protected against illness in the studies that looked. The authors call for policies shaped to slum realities and for better routes into care.
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| CREATOR | Tolulope Bella-Awusah, Oluwabunmi Fola – Bolumole, Sagar Jilka, Ursula Read, Olayinka Omigbodun, Swaran Singh, Domenico Giacco |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32352 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |