Common mental disorders among subjects with T2DM in Sagamu, Nigeria.

Background: Psychological disorders are common in diabetes mellitus with associated increased adverse disease outcome, economic burden on patient and family and poor quality of life. Psychological well being among T2DM patients has been poorly evaluated in Nigeria.

Objective: The study set out to determine the prevalence and pattern of psychological disorders of Anxiety and Depression as well as evaluate the relationship between psychological well being and diabetes related factors in our diabetic population.

Detection of mental disorders with the Patient Health Questionnaire in primary care settings in Nigeria.

Mental disorders lead to difficulties in social, occupational and marital relations. Failure to detect mental disorder denies patients potentially effective treatment. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and nature of mental disorders at the primary care settings and the recognition of these disorders by the attending physicians.

Stigmatising attitude of medical students towards a psychiatry label.

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a psychiatric label attached to an apparently normal person on the attitude of final year medical students at a Nigerian university.

Methods: A questionnaire with sections on demographic information, a single-paragraph case description illustrating a normal person, a social distance scale and questions on expected burden was used to elicit responses from 144 final year medical students who have had previous exposure to psychiatric posting. The students consisted of two randomly assigned groups; group A received a case description with a psychiatric label attached while group B received the same case description but without a psychiatric label.

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.