Utilization of Primary Healthcare Centers by Residents of Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria.

Background: Primary health care (PHC) centers help in providing a complete, universal, unbiased, and reasonable healthcare service to all. One major aim of PHC is to reduce health inequality. Most PHC centers in Nigeria cannot deliver fundamental healthcare services due to staffing, equipment distribution, quality infrastructure, and drug supply problems.

Trajectories of Successful Aging Among Older Adults in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Successful aging was defined as having no multimorbidity, high functional capacity, active life engagement, and good health-related quality of life. This study analyzed data from 1433 older adults who were followed up for 12 years across seven waves from the New Zealand Health, Work and Retirement study by examining the trajectories of successful aging. Latent growth curve modeling was used to assess the growth factors of successful aging trajectories of older adults.

Perceived stress and stressors among first-year undergraduate students at a private medical school in Nigeria.

Objectives: Medical training has long been globally recognised as involving numerous stressors that can affect the well-being of students. This study, the first to be conducted among first-year medical students at a private university in Nigeria, aims to identify factors associated with students' perceived stress.

Methods: An analytical cross-sectional design was employed.

Assessment of Self-Medication Practices and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduates of a Private University in Nigeria.

Background: Self-medication is the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms or the intermittent or continued use of prescribed drug for chronic or recurrent disease or symptoms, and it is mostly common in developing countries. This study therefore assessed the practice of self-medication among undergraduate students of a private university in Nigeria.

Methods: The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional design.