Moral Injury Among Nigerian Soldiers Following Combat: Case Reports and a Review of the Literature.

Moral injury is a phenomenon in which unpleasant psychological consequences such as guilt and shame follow exposure to activities that transgress one's deeply held moral beliefs and expectations. Combat engagement places service members at a heightened risk on account of exposure to potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs). It remains a more recent construct in comparison with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) despite several studies.

A comparative study of HIV/AIDS: the knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors of schizophrenic and diabetic patients in regard to HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

Context: Studies on knowledge and risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS reported from developed countries have shown that people with psychiatric disorders constitute a special risk group. In Nigeria, although similar studies have been conducted on various population groups, there has, so far, been no reported study on people suffering from psychiatric disorders.

Objective: The present study set out to compare knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS among schizophrenic patients and diabetic patients.

Interpersonal violence cases reported to the police: a Nigerian study.

The study involves 204 cases of interpersonal assault reported to the police during a period of 1 year. The patterns of domestic violence and community violence involving friends, neighbors, and strangers are described. The most common type of violence reported to the police is community interpersonal violence in which victims are mostly females and perpetrators are mostly males and members of gangs.

Psychiatric referrals during peace and wartimes: a Nigerian experience.

Using a questionnaire administered by us, we sought to investigate the differences between patients referred to the psychiatric department of a Nigerian military general hospital during peacetime and those referred during the civil war in Liberia in which Nigerian soldiers were involved as peacekeepers. Referrals to psychiatry in peacetime were quite few but increased considerably during the period of combat in direct relation to the increase in the number of surgical wounded in action cases. Organic mental disorders and anxiety disorders were more frequently referred in peacetime than in war, whereas substance abuse disorders were more frequent during the combat period.