Burden of Intimate Partner Violence among Nurses and Nursing Students in a Tertiary Hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

Introduction: Nurses are the largest healthcare workforce and are not immune to intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences.

Objective: This study is aimed at determining the prevalence, types of IPV, and its determinants among female nurses and nursing students in a tertiary teaching hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was done in a teaching hospital in Abakaliki between 1st March 2018 and 31st May 2018 to evaluate the prevalence of IPV in the past 12 months among 460 female nursing students and 460 nurses in the facility.

Cervical Cancer: Assessment of Its Knowledge, Utilization of Services and Its Determinant Among Female Undergraduate Students in a Low Resource Setting.

Background: Cervical cancer is a preventable disease that contributes significantly to the death of women. This study is aimed at determining the level of knowledge and utilization of cervical cancer screening and its determinants among female undergraduates of Ebonyi State University.

Methods: A structured questionnaire was used for a cross-sectional survey of the study population between January 1 and March 3, 2018.

Correlates of patients' satisfaction with antenatal care services in a tertiary hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

Introduction: antenatal care is a specialized pattern of care organized for pregnant women to improve their chances of a safe delivery. Assessment of patients' perception of healthcare services is one of the ways of measuring the quality of healthcare as satisfied patients are likely to come back for the services they need and to recommend the services to others.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study.

Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness among Pregnant Women in a Secondary Health Facility in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

Background: Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BP/CR) concept is based on the premise that preparing for birth and being ready for complications reduce all three phases of delay to a bad obstetric outcome.

Objectives: To determine the knowledge of BP/CR with its determinants and BP/CR index among pregnant women in Abakaliki, southeast Nigeria.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was done between 1 March 2019 and 31 July 2019 among 450 randomly selected antenatal attendees at Mile Four Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria.

Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets: Assessment of the Awareness and Utilization of Them among Antenatal Clinic Attendees in Abakaliki, Southeast Nigeria.

Background: The use of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLITNs) is one of the effective strategies for the prevention of malaria, especially among pregnant women.

Aim: This study is aimed at assessing the awareness and utilization of LLITNs during pregnancy among antenatal clinic attendees at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among antenatal attendees at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

Clinical Presentation and Management Outcome of Emergency Adolescent Gynecological Disorders at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria.

Background: Gynecological emergencies which affect the adolescents may pose a serious challenge to both the patient and the gynecologist.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to determine the clinical presentations and management outcomes of emergency adolescent gynecological disorders at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective review of all cases of adolescent gynecological emergencies managed at Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014.