The study was a descriptive survey that determined the
prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and syndromes and
established the relationship between the demographic vari-
ables of the study population with psychiatric morbidity
among the primary health care service users in Lagos Island.
The study setting was Lagos Island area of Lagos State, south
west of Nigeria with an estimated population of 400,000
residents (projected 2007 population at 3% annual increase
of 1991) [27]. The target population was primary care users,
aged 15 years and above, who utilized a selected number of
Primary Health Care Centre of Lagos Island between January
and April, 2008.