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Abstract Mental health problems disproportionately affect young people in developing countries. However, there is limited research on help-seeking behaviours and the social support systems that improve mental wellbeing among vulnerable youth populations. This mixed-methods study aimed to examine the relationship between social support reciprocity and mental health among young informal construction workers in Nigeria, a population at high-risk for occupational and socioeconomic stressors.
The age of the participants ranged from 18 to 35 years, with a mean age of 26.3 years (standard deviation = 4.9). Among the 686 participants in the study, the majority were males, accounting for 92.3% (633 males), while only 7.7% (53 females) were females. Regarding their marital status, 66.5% (456 participants) were single, and 33.5% (230 participants) were married.
Graphical analysis To illustrate the pre- and post-school closure search patterns, figuresS1-S4 (see supplementary material) show the raw daily searches for the topics 56 days before and 28 days after schools closed due to the pandemic. The red and black lines represent the average searches for 2020 and 2019, respectively. Overall, we observed considerable variation in daily searches over time. The RSVs for anger, boredom and prayer increased sharply around the time of school closures in 2020.
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