Social network interventions for dietary adherence among adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

Introduction: Optimal adherence to recommended diets is crucial to achieving long-term glycaemic control among individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) individuals. However, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that target dietary adherence through social networks. Since social networks can influence individuals' health behaviours, it is important to thoroughly evaluate the impact of social network interventions on dietary adherence in adults with T2D.

Precision nutrition for type 2 diabetes in Benin: leveraging linear goal programming to optimize diets with emphasis on adequacy, affordability, accessibility, and culture.

Background: Nutrition and diet are critical to managing Type 2 diabetes (T2D). Low-income households often face challenges maintaining a healthy and balanced diet due to food insecurity, availability, and cost. To address this issue, we used a linear goal programming (LGP) model to develop nutritionally adequate, affordable, accessible, and culturally acceptable diets for persons with T2D in Benin, a French-speaking sub-Saharan country.

Optimizing Postpartum Care in Rural Communities: Insights from Women in Arizona and Implications for Policy.

Objectives: Optimal postpartum care promotes healthcare utilization and outcomes. This qualitative study investigated the experiences and perceived needs for postpartum care among women in rural communities in Arizona, United States.

Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews with thirty childbearing women and analyzed the transcripts using reflexive thematic analysis to gauge their experiences, needs, and factors affecting postpartum healthcare utilization.

Extended Medicaid coverage will improve access but insufficient to enhance postpartum care utilization: a secondary analysis of the 2016-2019 Arizona Medicaid claims.

Introduction: Postpartum Medicaid eligibility extensions may increase access to healthcare for low-income women. However, its implications for healthcare utilization are unknown.

Methods: We analyzed the linked-infant birth certificate and claims data of women whose childbirths were paid for by Medicaid between 2016 and 2019 in Arizona, United States.

Formative Qualitative Research: Design Considerations for a Self-Directed Lifestyle Intervention for Type-2 Diabetes Patients Using Human-Centered Design Principles in Benin.

Given the burgeoning prevalence of Type-2 Diabetes (T2D) in Benin and other sub-Saharan countries, tailored diabetes self-management interventions are urgently needed. Human-centered designs can be useful for identifying beneficiaries' needs while keeping in mind feasibility and viability in a given context. Therefore, this study examined the acceptability and community perceptions of a self-directed lifestyle program for T2D patients in Cotonou, southern Benin.

A multi-centre observational study of HIV, tuberculosis and risk of chronic lung disease in urban West Africa.

Objective: HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are risk factors for non-communicable chronic lung disease (CLD). Despite the high prevalence of these infections in West Africa, there are no studies that compare CLD between people with HIV and HIV-negative populations in this setting. This study sought to quantify the contribution of HIV and TB infection in addition to conventional CLD risk factors, such as tobacco and biofuel exposure, to CLD in urban West Africa.

Hair Stylists as Lay Health Workers: Perspectives of Black Women on Salon-Based Health Promotion.

Lay health workers (LHWs) have been effective in delivering health promotion to underserved, vulnerable populations. Hair stylists are well positioned to serve as LHWs in addressing health disparities among Black women in the U.S.

Qualitative research on maternal care access among Arabic-speaking refugee women in the USA: study protocol.

Background: Refugees tend to have greater health needs and pre-existing medical conditions due to poor living conditions, lack of health services, exposure to a variety of risk factors, and a high level of stress and trauma prior to entry to a host country. Notwithstanding distinctive needs and inherent conditions, there is a paucity of literature on refugee maternal health, especially for Arabic-speaking refugee women resettled in the USA.

Methods And Analysis: The paper delineates a qualitative study protocol to explore the experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee women in the USA when accessing maternal care.

Cultural Considerations for the Adaptation of a Diabetes Self-Management Education Program in Cotonou, Benin: Lessons Learned from a Qualitative Study.

: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) poses a disproportionate burden on Benin, West Africa. However, no diabetes intervention has yet been developed for Benin's contexts. This study aimed to explore specific cultural beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and environmental factors to help adapt a diabetes self-management program to patients with T2D from Cotonou, in southern Benin.

Asymptomatic Proteinuria and Haematuria in Healthy Public Primary School Children in Abuja, Nigeria.

Background: Urinary abnormalities detected on routine urinalysis in asymptomatic children may be indicators of underlying kidney diseases.

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors for asymptomatic proteinuria and haematuria in healthy primary school children in Abuja.

Methods: Using multi-staged sampling method, early morning mid-stream urine was collected from healthy school children from urban and rural primary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria for the presence of proteinuria and haematuria using urinalysis strips.

Emergency Transportation Interventions for Reducing Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To assess the effect of emergency transportation interventions on the outcome of labor and delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Methods: Eleven databases were searched through December 2019: Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, EBSCO (PsycINFO and CINAHL), SCIELO, LILACS, JSTOR, POPLINE, Google Scholar, the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Specialized Register, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Methodological quality of included studies was assessed using the ROBINS-I tool.

Medical cannabis for the reduction of opioid dosage in the treatment of non-cancer chronic pain: a systematic review.

Background: Medical cannabis (MC) is currently being used as an adjunct to opiates given its analgesic effects and potential to reduce opiate addiction. This review assessed if MC used in combination with opioids to treat non-cancer chronic pain would reduce opioid dosage.

Methods: Four databases-Ovid (Medline), Psyc-INFO, PubMed, Web of Science, and grey literature-were searched to identify original research that assessed the effects of MC on non-cancer chronic pain in humans.

HIV Co-Infection with Hepatitis B and C and Liver Function in Children and Adolescents on Antiretroviral Therapy in a Tertiary Health Institution in Abuja.

Background: HIV has direct and indirect effects on the liver, just as hepatitis B and C viral infections are both hepatotropic viruses. Co-infection is an emerging clinical problem among HIV infected individuals, therefore its prevalence and impact on hepatic functions in children requires evaluation.

Methods: A cross sectional hospital-based study was conducted among HIV infected children and adolescents aged 2 months to 18 years on antiretroviral therapy at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital from October 2017 to March 2018.

Monitoring the physical and insecticidal durability of the long-lasting insecticidal net DawaPlus 2.0 in three States in Nigeria.

Background: Following guidance from the US President's Malaria Initiative, durability monitoring of DawaPlus 2.0 brand of long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distributed during the 2015/16 mass campaign was set up in three ecologically different states: Zamfara, Ebonyi and Oyo.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study of representative samples of households from each location, recruited at baseline, 1 to 6 months after the mass campaign.

Effect of a cognitive behavioural intervention on depression reduction among community-dwelling adult learners in Nigeria: Implications for adult education administration.

Objective: The study objective was to determine the effect of a cognitive behavioural intervention (CBI) on depression among community-dwelling adult learners in Nigeria.

Methods: This was a 10-week randomized control trial. Participants were 82 community-dwelling adult learners with depression.

Effect of rational-emotive adult education intervention on burnout symptoms among primary school teachers in Southeast Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the effect of a rational-emotive adult education intervention (REAEI) on burnout symptoms among primary school teachers in Southeast Nigeria.

Methods: Primary school teachers with burnout symptoms were randomised to treatment or control condition. Treatment was a 16-week REAEI programme delivered in 32 group therapeutic sessions.

Musculoskeletal symptoms and non-prescribed treatments are common in an urban African population of people living with HIV.

There are no data from West Africa reporting musculoskeletal (MSK) disease in people living with HIV (PLWH). Our primary outcome was to measure the prevalence of MSK symptoms in PLWH in urban West Africa. Our secondary outcomes were to describe the disability, impact on work and treatment use associated with the presence of MSK pain.

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a School Insecticide-Treated Net Distribution Program in Cross River State, Nigeria.

Background: In 2013, the World Health Organization recommended distribution through schools, health facilities, community health workers, and mass campaigns to maintain coverage with insecticide-treated nets (ITNs). We piloted school distribution in 3 local government areas (LGAs) of Cross River State, Nigeria.

Methods: From January to March 2011, all 3 study sites participated in a mass ITN campaign.

Acceptance of provider-initiated testing and counseling for HIV infection by caregivers in a tertiary health institution in Abuja, Nigeria: a cross sectional study.

Introduction: Less than 10% of HIV positive children are enrolled into antiretroviral treatment program in the country. Provider-initiated testing and counseling was introduced to increasing uptake of HIV testing. The aim of this study is to determine the acceptability and factors undermining the acceptance of this laudable initiative by parents/caregivers of children attending paediatric out patient clinical services in our health institution.

Immunologic outcomes of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected Nigerian children and its association with early infant feeding and nutritional status at treatment initiation.

Objectives: To evaluate immunologic response to antiretroviral treatment (ART) among HIV-infected Nigerian children (<36 months old) and to assess its association with early infant feeding pattern and nutritional status at treatment initiation.

Design: Mixed prospective and retrospective cohort study.

Methods: One hundred fifty HIV-infected children were followed for 12 months from initiation of ART.

Prevalence of paediatric HIV infection in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Background: Various studies in sub-Saharan Africa have documented high prevalence of HIV infection in children.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and outcome of paediatric HIV/AIDS in a new Teaching Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria.

Methods: A two year retrospective review of patients attending paediatric outpatient unit of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, was undertaken for the above objective.

Morbidity and mortality pattern of admissions into the Emergency Paediatric Unit of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.

Background: Emergency paediatric unit (EPU) is a key service area in many tertiary health institutions. The concept of performance evaluation in the hospital is an indispensible tool for evaluating the health care service rendered to the populace, generation of base line data for comparative purposes, policy formulation as well as planning for health care operatives. Since the inception of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) in 1983, there has been no comprehensive review of performance activities in this very important key service area of the hospital.

Clinical correlate of tuberculosis in HIV co-infected children at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Nigeria.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) co-infection with HIV is becoming a global emergency especially in the sub-Saharan Africa. Its diagnosis is notoriously challenging in countries with poor resource settings with limited diagnostic facilities.

Objective: To determine the prevalence, pattern, outcome, and clinical risk factors of TB in HIV co-infected children in Abuja, Nigeria.

Morbidity and mortality patterns of admissions into the Special Care Baby Unit of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the morbidity and mortality patterns of patients admitted into the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada, Nigeria.

Method: A retrospective analysis of records of patients admitted into the SCBU of the UATH over an 18 month period ofJanuary 2005 to June 2006 was carried out.

Result: A total of 654 patients were admitted into SCBU of UATH during the review period, there were 351 (53.