Mental health affected 46.24% of women in Burkina Faso in 2015
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lefaso.net
A 2015 Burkinabè survey estimated that 46.24% of women had at least one mental disorder, compared with 35.01% of men; in 2021, prevalence reached 41.10% among internally displaced people. These disparities are associated with violence, forced marriages and financial or social barriers, according to Lefaso.net.
In 2015, 46.24% of women surveyed in Burkina Faso had at least one mental disorder, compared with 35.01% of men, according to a national survey published by Ouédraogo and colleagues in the journal L’Encéphale. These findings were reported by Lefaso.net.
Another national survey, conducted in 2021 across the country’s 13 regions among 5,258 people, estimated the prevalence of mental disorders at 33.49% in the general population and 41.10% among internally displaced people. The study links the gap between women and men to gender-based violence, as well as child and forced marriages.
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