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Journal of Applied Hematology, 2019
BACKGROUND: Prolonged use of pentazocine in sickle cell disease (SCD) because of chronic pain may... more BACKGROUND: Prolonged use of pentazocine in sickle cell disease (SCD) because of chronic pain may result in mental dependence (addiction) and/or physical dependence leading to withdrawal symptoms on suddenly stopping its use. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of pentazocine addiction among SCD patients and health-care worker (HCW) perception on its use. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an interviewer-administered, questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study. The study involved clients attending the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital sickle cell clinic and the hospital HCWs. Consenting participants filled a World Health Organization structured questionnaire developed and extracted from ASSIST which is A - Alcohol, S - Smoking and S - Substance, I - Involvement, S - Screening, and T - Test. The HCWs were evaluated using a pretested, validated questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 350 participants were recruited consisting of 169 (48.3%) males and 181 (51.7%) females. ASSIST report showed 88% of them had low score of 0–3, 10% had moderate score of 4–26, while 2% (7 of 350) had high score of >27. A total of 61 HCWs were interviewed, and 18% and 8.2% of them believed 40%–60% and more than 60%, respectively, of the SCD patients were addictive to pentazocine. CONCLUSION: While the issue of drug addiction should not be ignored, the appropriate treatment of SCD patients in Nigeria who are prevented from getting high-quality care should be appropriately addressed. The risk of addiction is overestimated among HCW.
International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 2021
This study examined school mapping principles and compliance level by public and private senior s... more This study examined school mapping principles and compliance level by public and private senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study population consisted of all senior secondary schools in education district v. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 5 respondents from 20 secondary school in Education District V in Lagos State. A research instrument title "School Mapping Principle and Compliance Level Checklist (SMPCLC) was used to gather data. Face and content validity was used to validate the instrument and was found reliable through test-re-test technique at 0.75. Three research questions were raised and answered. Data collected were analysed through simple percentage, means and standard deviation. The findings of the study are that most of the schools established are not in accordance with the stated guidelines for establishing schools, and most of the school owners do not comply with the guidelines for establishing schools in Lagos state. It is therefore recommended that strict attention should be placed on school mapping principles and its usefulness in creating a conducive atmosphere that will enhance effective administration and productive academic activity. More so, the Lagos State Government should revoke, suspend and withdraw an approval granted if the schools do not operate according to the prescribe guidelines.
The Lancet, 2009
Background Many people with schizophrenia experience stigma caused by other people's knowledge, a... more Background Many people with schizophrenia experience stigma caused by other people's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour; this can lead to impoverishment, social marginalisation, and low quality of life. We aimed to describe the nature, direction, and severity of anticipated and experienced discrimination reported by people with schizophrenia. Methods We did a cross-sectional survey in 27 countries, in centres affi liated to the INDIGO Research Network, by use of face-to-face interviews with 732 participants with schizophrenia. Discrimination was measured with the newly validated discrimination and stigma scale (DISC), which produces three subscores: positive experienced discrimination; negative experienced discrimination; and anticipated discrimination. Findings Negative discrimination was experienced by 344 (47%) of 729 participants in making or keeping friends, by 315 (43%) of 728 from family members, by 209 (29%) of 724 in fi nding a job, 215 (29%) of 730 in keeping a job, and by 196 (27%) of 724 in intimate or sexual relationships. Positive experienced discrimination was rare. Anticipated discrimination aff ected 469 (64%) in applying for work, training, or education and 402 (55%) looking for a close relationship; 526 (72%) felt the need to conceal their diagnosis. Over a third of participants anticipated discrimination for job seeking and close personal relationships when no discrimination was experienced. Interpretation Rates of both anticipated and experienced discrimination are consistently high across countries among people with mental illness. Measures such as disability discrimination laws might, therefore, not be eff ective without interventions to improve self-esteem of people with mental illness.
Nigerian journal of clinical practice
This study examined the caregivers' perception of the effect of dental conditions on general ... more This study examined the caregivers' perception of the effect of dental conditions on general well-being and family life of a group of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected Nigerian children. A secondary aim was to investigate correlations between the children's sociodemographic and health-related variables and caregivers' global ratings of oral health and well-being. Study Design A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted among parents/caregivers of 95 HIV-positive children receiving care at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. The "Parental-Caregivers Perception Questionnaire" which included measures of global ratings of oral health and well-being as well as effects of oral health on domains of oral symptoms, functional limitations, emotional well-being, and family well-being/parental distress was used. Assessment was based on the child's oral health within the preceding 3 months of the study. The most affected subsc...
African Journal of Psychiatry, 2009
A Af fr ri ic ca an n J Jo ou ur rn na al l o of f P Ps sy yc ch hi ia at tr ry y • May 2009
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1999
It is widely reported that women drink less and have a lower prevalence of drink problems than me... more It is widely reported that women drink less and have a lower prevalence of drink problems than men, but the gender differences in the relationship between level of drinking and drink problems have rarely been investigated quantitatively. This paper reports results from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 British Cohort) when the subjects were 43 years old. Using 7-day recall for alcohol consumption and CAGE scores of 2, 3 or 4 for drink problems, it was found that the prevalence of drink problems increased with level of alcohol consumption. Women were more likely than men to report drink problems at the same level of alcohol consumption. However, this gender difference was largely accounted for by individual differences in weight of body water. Beer accounted for the excess of men's drinking over women's and the proportion of alcohol consumed as beer was inversely related to drink problems. Eighty per cent of women and 52% of men who had drink problems in the past year reported drinking less than an average of 3 U (women) or 4 U (men) a day in the past week. As drinking levels in women begin to approach those in men, rates of drink problems in women are likely to overtake those in men because of women's greater physiological sensitivity to the effects of alcohol.
Objective: This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the han... more Objective: This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the hand using quantitative goniometric measurements among Black Africans with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and nondiabetes . Methods: Seventy-six patients with Type 2 diabetes and 63 normal controls matched for age and gender were purposively selected. Visual clinical examination and quantitative goniometric assessment of patients with DM and non-DM controls were done. The LJM was graded using the criteria of Silverstein et al . Glycaemic control and proteinuria were also assessed. Results: Prevalence of LJM among Type 2 DM patients was 26.3% compared with 4.8% in normal controls . Subjects with LJM within the control group were significantly older than those with LJM within the DM group ( p < 0.05). Prayer sign was 11.8% in DM patients compared with 4.8% of control. The flattening sign demonstrated by the inability to flatten their hands on a flat surface was more in patients with DM (10.5%) c...
BMJ Global Health
IntroductionRenewed interest in health-related stigma has invigorated calls to understand factors... more IntroductionRenewed interest in health-related stigma has invigorated calls to understand factors and processes underlying stigma. However, few empirical studies explore the influences of structural discrimination and moral status on leprosy-related stigma. We investigated how sociocultural context and organisational policies and practices influenced the connotations of leprosy, sources of stigma and the changing social responses to leprosy in Western Nigeria.MethodologyEthnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2012 combined documents review with life history interviews of 21 individuals affected by leprosy and semistructured interviews with 26 community members in Western Nigeria. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim and coded. Theoretical frameworks used to deepen social understandings of leprosy and responses to stigma included Link’s and Phelan’s conceptualisation of stigma and the concepts of structural discrimination and moral status.ResultsFindings showed t...
Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine, 2007
Open Journal of Psychiatry
Background: Depression, one of the commonest mental health problems in SCD, has high prevalence r... more Background: Depression, one of the commonest mental health problems in SCD, has high prevalence rates. While psychological therapies have been found to be beneficial in mild to moderate depression, their use as non-pharmacological methods amongst adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria, is still at its infancy. Objective: To determine the effect of behavioural activation therapy on depression in adolescents living with Sickle Cell Disease attending outpatient clinic at the
European Psychiatry, 2016
IntroductionNigerian adolescents report various sleep disorders metaphorically based on the local... more IntroductionNigerian adolescents report various sleep disorders metaphorically based on the local/native description of such disorders. Hence, it is sometimes difficult for clinicians without a good grasp of the nuance in their description to understand their presentation.AimTo develop a culturally relevant (Nigerian) instrument for assessing sleep disorders.MethodsOne thousand two hundred and twenty-seven Nigerian Secondary School adolescents (634 males and 593 females) between 12–19 years with mean age of 15.20 (SD = 1.5) were administered a 44 item instrument developed following the DSM (V), American Association of Sleep Medicine's International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD, 2005) criteria, and case reports of sleep disorders. The data was subjected to a Principal Component Analysis using Varimax rotation.ResultTen factors instead of the original eleven factors suggested by the authors emerged in the analysis and on closer examination and in juxtaposition with cult...
European Psychiatry, 2016
IntroductionSecondary school students in Nigeria are under intense pressure to perform well in th... more IntroductionSecondary school students in Nigeria are under intense pressure to perform well in their academics so as to have competitive advantage in advancing their studies. This pressure has been linked to western derived psycho-pathologies such as depression, anxiety and culture bound syndrome such as brain fag syndrome.AimTo examine gender differences in the manifestation of brain-fag syndrome, depression, and anxieties among students about to participate in Junior Secondary Certificate Examination (JSCE) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Nigeria.MethodsTwo hundred and nine (209) students (X age = 14.27, SD = 2.18) were administered a battery of tests comprising of the Brain Fag Syndrome Scale, Brain Fag Propensity Scale, State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Patient Health Questionnaire, Mathematics Anxiety Inventory and Test Anxiety Inventory. The data was subjected to a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).ResultsThe result showed no significan...
Journal of Pediatric Neurology, 2015
ABSTRACT To investigate the rate and type of psychiatric diagnosis in a group of Nigerian adolesc... more ABSTRACT To investigate the rate and type of psychiatric diagnosis in a group of Nigerian adolescents with epilepsy. Adolescents with epilepsy (n = 166) aged 12 to 18 years and healthy controls (n = 170) and their adult caretakers were interviewed with the youth and parent versions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children version IV (DISC IV). The rate of any psychiatric disorder in adolescents with epilepsy is 65.1%; any anxiety disorder is 33.1%; any depressive disorder is 30.1% and any disruptive disorder is 25.9%. Adolescents with epilepsy have significant higher risk for generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorders, major depressive disorders, dysthymia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder than healthy controls. Psychiatric morbidity is mainly associated with frequency of seizures (P < 0.001) and number of antiepilepsy drugs (P < 0.001). Nigerian adolescents with epilepsy have a higher rate of a wide variety of psychiatric disorders than their healthy counterparts. Interesting associations with conduct disorders have been found in our Nigerian sample. All these should be taken into account when planning management of these youth.
Introduction: Dating violence (DV) involves a pattern of coercive, manipulative behaviour that on... more Introduction: Dating violence (DV) involves a pattern of coercive, manipulative behaviour that one partner exerts over the other for the purpose of establishing and maintaining power and control (Jane and Erica, 2006). DV is not limited to a specific demographic, it is a significant problem not only because of its alarming prevalence and physical and mental health consequences (Callahan, Tolman, & Saunders, 2003), but also because it occurs at a life stage when interactional patterns are learned that may carry over into adulthood. Use of alcohol and drugs has been consistently found to be strongly associated with inflicting and being the recipient of DV for both genders (Silverman et al, 2001; Raiford et al, 2002). The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between psychoactive substance use and dating violence among a sample of students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Methods: Using a cross sectional descriptive study, a questionnaire containing ...
African journal of psychiatry, 2012
Acta Endocrinologica (Bucharest), 2009
The purpose of this study is to understand differences in cognitive function and the instrumental... more The purpose of this study is to understand differences in cognitive function and the instrumental activities of daily living depending on whether elderly women living alone in Korea have depression and to determine the correlation between variables. The data were collected from April 2011 to April 2012 with a total of 1,426 women interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Based on examining the correlation between variables, a weak inverse correlation was shown between depression and cognitive function(r=-.208, p<.001), between cognitive function and the instrumental activities of daily living(r=-.256, p<.001), and a weak positive correlation was shown between depression and instrumental activities of daily living(r=.222, p<.001). According to these results, We should pay attention to come up with ways to promote and maintain the mental health of elderly women so that depression level can be reduced through the improvement of cognitive function and social activity level.
The West Indian medical journal, 2009
This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the hand using qua... more This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the hand using quantitative goniometric measurements among Black Africans with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and non-diabetes. Seventy-six patients with Type 2 diabetes and 63 normal controls matched for age and gender were purposively selected. Visual clinical examination and quantitative goniometric assessment of patients with DM and non-DM controls were done. The LJM was graded using the criteria of Silverstein et al. Glycaemic control and proteinuria were also assessed. Prevalence of LJM among Type 2 DM patients was 26.3% compared with 4.8% in normal controls. Subjects with LJM within the control group were significantly older than those with LJM within the DM group (p < 0.05). Prayer sign was 11.8% in DM patients compared with 4.8% of control. The flattening sign demonstrated by the inability to flatten their hands on a flat surface was more in patients with DM (10.5%) compared with 4.8% in the control...
Journal of Applied Hematology, 2019
BACKGROUND: Prolonged use of pentazocine in sickle cell disease (SCD) because of chronic pain may... more BACKGROUND: Prolonged use of pentazocine in sickle cell disease (SCD) because of chronic pain may result in mental dependence (addiction) and/or physical dependence leading to withdrawal symptoms on suddenly stopping its use. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of pentazocine addiction among SCD patients and health-care worker (HCW) perception on its use. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an interviewer-administered, questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study. The study involved clients attending the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital sickle cell clinic and the hospital HCWs. Consenting participants filled a World Health Organization structured questionnaire developed and extracted from ASSIST which is A - Alcohol, S - Smoking and S - Substance, I - Involvement, S - Screening, and T - Test. The HCWs were evaluated using a pretested, validated questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 350 participants were recruited consisting of 169 (48.3%) males and 181 (51.7%) females. ASSIST report showed 88% of them had low score of 0–3, 10% had moderate score of 4–26, while 2% (7 of 350) had high score of >27. A total of 61 HCWs were interviewed, and 18% and 8.2% of them believed 40%–60% and more than 60%, respectively, of the SCD patients were addictive to pentazocine. CONCLUSION: While the issue of drug addiction should not be ignored, the appropriate treatment of SCD patients in Nigeria who are prevented from getting high-quality care should be appropriately addressed. The risk of addiction is overestimated among HCW.
International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 2021
This study examined school mapping principles and compliance level by public and private senior s... more This study examined school mapping principles and compliance level by public and private senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study population consisted of all senior secondary schools in education district v. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 5 respondents from 20 secondary school in Education District V in Lagos State. A research instrument title "School Mapping Principle and Compliance Level Checklist (SMPCLC) was used to gather data. Face and content validity was used to validate the instrument and was found reliable through test-re-test technique at 0.75. Three research questions were raised and answered. Data collected were analysed through simple percentage, means and standard deviation. The findings of the study are that most of the schools established are not in accordance with the stated guidelines for establishing schools, and most of the school owners do not comply with the guidelines for establishing schools in Lagos state. It is therefore recommended that strict attention should be placed on school mapping principles and its usefulness in creating a conducive atmosphere that will enhance effective administration and productive academic activity. More so, the Lagos State Government should revoke, suspend and withdraw an approval granted if the schools do not operate according to the prescribe guidelines.
The Lancet, 2009
Background Many people with schizophrenia experience stigma caused by other people's knowledge, a... more Background Many people with schizophrenia experience stigma caused by other people's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour; this can lead to impoverishment, social marginalisation, and low quality of life. We aimed to describe the nature, direction, and severity of anticipated and experienced discrimination reported by people with schizophrenia. Methods We did a cross-sectional survey in 27 countries, in centres affi liated to the INDIGO Research Network, by use of face-to-face interviews with 732 participants with schizophrenia. Discrimination was measured with the newly validated discrimination and stigma scale (DISC), which produces three subscores: positive experienced discrimination; negative experienced discrimination; and anticipated discrimination. Findings Negative discrimination was experienced by 344 (47%) of 729 participants in making or keeping friends, by 315 (43%) of 728 from family members, by 209 (29%) of 724 in fi nding a job, 215 (29%) of 730 in keeping a job, and by 196 (27%) of 724 in intimate or sexual relationships. Positive experienced discrimination was rare. Anticipated discrimination aff ected 469 (64%) in applying for work, training, or education and 402 (55%) looking for a close relationship; 526 (72%) felt the need to conceal their diagnosis. Over a third of participants anticipated discrimination for job seeking and close personal relationships when no discrimination was experienced. Interpretation Rates of both anticipated and experienced discrimination are consistently high across countries among people with mental illness. Measures such as disability discrimination laws might, therefore, not be eff ective without interventions to improve self-esteem of people with mental illness.
Nigerian journal of clinical practice
This study examined the caregivers' perception of the effect of dental conditions on general ... more This study examined the caregivers' perception of the effect of dental conditions on general well-being and family life of a group of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected Nigerian children. A secondary aim was to investigate correlations between the children's sociodemographic and health-related variables and caregivers' global ratings of oral health and well-being. Study Design A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted among parents/caregivers of 95 HIV-positive children receiving care at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. The "Parental-Caregivers Perception Questionnaire" which included measures of global ratings of oral health and well-being as well as effects of oral health on domains of oral symptoms, functional limitations, emotional well-being, and family well-being/parental distress was used. Assessment was based on the child's oral health within the preceding 3 months of the study. The most affected subsc...
African Journal of Psychiatry, 2009
A Af fr ri ic ca an n J Jo ou ur rn na al l o of f P Ps sy yc ch hi ia at tr ry y • May 2009
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1999
It is widely reported that women drink less and have a lower prevalence of drink problems than me... more It is widely reported that women drink less and have a lower prevalence of drink problems than men, but the gender differences in the relationship between level of drinking and drink problems have rarely been investigated quantitatively. This paper reports results from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 British Cohort) when the subjects were 43 years old. Using 7-day recall for alcohol consumption and CAGE scores of 2, 3 or 4 for drink problems, it was found that the prevalence of drink problems increased with level of alcohol consumption. Women were more likely than men to report drink problems at the same level of alcohol consumption. However, this gender difference was largely accounted for by individual differences in weight of body water. Beer accounted for the excess of men's drinking over women's and the proportion of alcohol consumed as beer was inversely related to drink problems. Eighty per cent of women and 52% of men who had drink problems in the past year reported drinking less than an average of 3 U (women) or 4 U (men) a day in the past week. As drinking levels in women begin to approach those in men, rates of drink problems in women are likely to overtake those in men because of women's greater physiological sensitivity to the effects of alcohol.
Objective: This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the han... more Objective: This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the hand using quantitative goniometric measurements among Black Africans with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and nondiabetes . Methods: Seventy-six patients with Type 2 diabetes and 63 normal controls matched for age and gender were purposively selected. Visual clinical examination and quantitative goniometric assessment of patients with DM and non-DM controls were done. The LJM was graded using the criteria of Silverstein et al . Glycaemic control and proteinuria were also assessed. Results: Prevalence of LJM among Type 2 DM patients was 26.3% compared with 4.8% in normal controls . Subjects with LJM within the control group were significantly older than those with LJM within the DM group ( p < 0.05). Prayer sign was 11.8% in DM patients compared with 4.8% of control. The flattening sign demonstrated by the inability to flatten their hands on a flat surface was more in patients with DM (10.5%) c...
BMJ Global Health
IntroductionRenewed interest in health-related stigma has invigorated calls to understand factors... more IntroductionRenewed interest in health-related stigma has invigorated calls to understand factors and processes underlying stigma. However, few empirical studies explore the influences of structural discrimination and moral status on leprosy-related stigma. We investigated how sociocultural context and organisational policies and practices influenced the connotations of leprosy, sources of stigma and the changing social responses to leprosy in Western Nigeria.MethodologyEthnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2012 combined documents review with life history interviews of 21 individuals affected by leprosy and semistructured interviews with 26 community members in Western Nigeria. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim and coded. Theoretical frameworks used to deepen social understandings of leprosy and responses to stigma included Link’s and Phelan’s conceptualisation of stigma and the concepts of structural discrimination and moral status.ResultsFindings showed t...
Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine, 2007
Open Journal of Psychiatry
Background: Depression, one of the commonest mental health problems in SCD, has high prevalence r... more Background: Depression, one of the commonest mental health problems in SCD, has high prevalence rates. While psychological therapies have been found to be beneficial in mild to moderate depression, their use as non-pharmacological methods amongst adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria, is still at its infancy. Objective: To determine the effect of behavioural activation therapy on depression in adolescents living with Sickle Cell Disease attending outpatient clinic at the
European Psychiatry, 2016
IntroductionNigerian adolescents report various sleep disorders metaphorically based on the local... more IntroductionNigerian adolescents report various sleep disorders metaphorically based on the local/native description of such disorders. Hence, it is sometimes difficult for clinicians without a good grasp of the nuance in their description to understand their presentation.AimTo develop a culturally relevant (Nigerian) instrument for assessing sleep disorders.MethodsOne thousand two hundred and twenty-seven Nigerian Secondary School adolescents (634 males and 593 females) between 12–19 years with mean age of 15.20 (SD = 1.5) were administered a 44 item instrument developed following the DSM (V), American Association of Sleep Medicine's International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD, 2005) criteria, and case reports of sleep disorders. The data was subjected to a Principal Component Analysis using Varimax rotation.ResultTen factors instead of the original eleven factors suggested by the authors emerged in the analysis and on closer examination and in juxtaposition with cult...
European Psychiatry, 2016
IntroductionSecondary school students in Nigeria are under intense pressure to perform well in th... more IntroductionSecondary school students in Nigeria are under intense pressure to perform well in their academics so as to have competitive advantage in advancing their studies. This pressure has been linked to western derived psycho-pathologies such as depression, anxiety and culture bound syndrome such as brain fag syndrome.AimTo examine gender differences in the manifestation of brain-fag syndrome, depression, and anxieties among students about to participate in Junior Secondary Certificate Examination (JSCE) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Nigeria.MethodsTwo hundred and nine (209) students (X age = 14.27, SD = 2.18) were administered a battery of tests comprising of the Brain Fag Syndrome Scale, Brain Fag Propensity Scale, State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Patient Health Questionnaire, Mathematics Anxiety Inventory and Test Anxiety Inventory. The data was subjected to a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).ResultsThe result showed no significan...
Journal of Pediatric Neurology, 2015
ABSTRACT To investigate the rate and type of psychiatric diagnosis in a group of Nigerian adolesc... more ABSTRACT To investigate the rate and type of psychiatric diagnosis in a group of Nigerian adolescents with epilepsy. Adolescents with epilepsy (n = 166) aged 12 to 18 years and healthy controls (n = 170) and their adult caretakers were interviewed with the youth and parent versions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children version IV (DISC IV). The rate of any psychiatric disorder in adolescents with epilepsy is 65.1%; any anxiety disorder is 33.1%; any depressive disorder is 30.1% and any disruptive disorder is 25.9%. Adolescents with epilepsy have significant higher risk for generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorders, major depressive disorders, dysthymia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder than healthy controls. Psychiatric morbidity is mainly associated with frequency of seizures (P < 0.001) and number of antiepilepsy drugs (P < 0.001). Nigerian adolescents with epilepsy have a higher rate of a wide variety of psychiatric disorders than their healthy counterparts. Interesting associations with conduct disorders have been found in our Nigerian sample. All these should be taken into account when planning management of these youth.
Introduction: Dating violence (DV) involves a pattern of coercive, manipulative behaviour that on... more Introduction: Dating violence (DV) involves a pattern of coercive, manipulative behaviour that one partner exerts over the other for the purpose of establishing and maintaining power and control (Jane and Erica, 2006). DV is not limited to a specific demographic, it is a significant problem not only because of its alarming prevalence and physical and mental health consequences (Callahan, Tolman, & Saunders, 2003), but also because it occurs at a life stage when interactional patterns are learned that may carry over into adulthood. Use of alcohol and drugs has been consistently found to be strongly associated with inflicting and being the recipient of DV for both genders (Silverman et al, 2001; Raiford et al, 2002). The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between psychoactive substance use and dating violence among a sample of students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Methods: Using a cross sectional descriptive study, a questionnaire containing ...
African journal of psychiatry, 2012
Acta Endocrinologica (Bucharest), 2009
The purpose of this study is to understand differences in cognitive function and the instrumental... more The purpose of this study is to understand differences in cognitive function and the instrumental activities of daily living depending on whether elderly women living alone in Korea have depression and to determine the correlation between variables. The data were collected from April 2011 to April 2012 with a total of 1,426 women interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Based on examining the correlation between variables, a weak inverse correlation was shown between depression and cognitive function(r=-.208, p<.001), between cognitive function and the instrumental activities of daily living(r=-.256, p<.001), and a weak positive correlation was shown between depression and instrumental activities of daily living(r=.222, p<.001). According to these results, We should pay attention to come up with ways to promote and maintain the mental health of elderly women so that depression level can be reduced through the improvement of cognitive function and social activity level.
The West Indian medical journal, 2009
This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the hand using qua... more This study is designed to further characterize Limited Joint Mobility (LJM) of the hand using quantitative goniometric measurements among Black Africans with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and non-diabetes. Seventy-six patients with Type 2 diabetes and 63 normal controls matched for age and gender were purposively selected. Visual clinical examination and quantitative goniometric assessment of patients with DM and non-DM controls were done. The LJM was graded using the criteria of Silverstein et al. Glycaemic control and proteinuria were also assessed. Prevalence of LJM among Type 2 DM patients was 26.3% compared with 4.8% in normal controls. Subjects with LJM within the control group were significantly older than those with LJM within the DM group (p < 0.05). Prayer sign was 11.8% in DM patients compared with 4.8% of control. The flattening sign demonstrated by the inability to flatten their hands on a flat surface was more in patients with DM (10.5%) compared with 4.8% in the control...