Oyeyemi Oyelade
PhD,University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Title: Rehabilitation of People Living with Schizophrenia in Sub-Sahara Africa: A scoping Review
Biography
Biography: Oyeyemi Oyelade
Abstract
Rehabilitation has been declared evidence-based in reducing the burden and stigma of Schizophrenia. The report of the evidence on the rehabilitation of Schizophrenia emanates from the western countries where rehabilitation is embraced and practised. Rehabilitation equally has a potential impact in minimising the consequences of being diagnosed with Schizophrenia on the individuals and bring about the positive impact of the country, Sub-Saharan Africa, especially it’s economy. However, there seems to be a dearth of literature regarding the rehabilitation of individuals with Schizophrenia in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is therefore considered imperative to review the resources from Sub-Sahara Africa for situational analysis, appraisal, recommendation and possibly adaptation by settings that are without rehabilitation programmes for individuals with Schizophrenia.
The Arsey and O'Malley scoping review framework guide the conduction of article search and compilation in this review. Articles included passed through three stages of screening which are; title screening, abstract and full article screening. The content analysis of the screened articles was done using NVIVO. Two articles were found on the rehabilitation of people living with Schizophrenia from Sub-Sahara Africa, and the article are form Ethiopia and South Africa. The articles show that rehabilitation has high potential to reduce stigma and increase social desirability for individuals living with Schizophrenia in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Schizophrenia being a chronic mental illness and the most stigmatised, strategies for rehabilitation has high potential to improve the standard of living of individuals living with Schizophrenia because of the negative symptoms that do not respond to medication but rehabilitation.