The Prevalence and Factors Associated with Depression among Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis at the Federal Medical Center, Owo, Nigeria.

Background: Co-morbid depression poses a challenge to the successful management of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). This study assessed the prevalence of depression and its associated factors among patients receiving treatment for TB in a tertiary health care facility in southwestern Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among all the pulmonary TB patients presenting in the initiating or continuous phase of treatment and they were consecutively recruited between January and December, 2017.

Depression and medication-adherence in patients with hypertension attending a tertiary health facility in South-West Nigeria.

Introduction: In Nigeria, approximately 4.33 million adults suffer from hypertension and about a third of them do not adhere to prescribed medications. Depression has been reported to significantly predict poor medication adherence.