Comparative assessment of birth preparedness and complication readiness among couples in rural and urban communities of Ekiti State, Southwestern Nigeria.

Objectives: To assess and compare the level of Birth Preparedness and Complications Readiness (BPCR) and determine the predicting effect of socio-demographic factors on it among couples in rural and urban communities of Ekiti State.

Design: A community-based comparative cross-sectional study.

Setting: The study was conducted in twelve rural and twelve urban communities in Ekiti State.

Metabolic Syndrome and Framingham Risk Score: Observation from Screening of Low-Income Semi-Urban African Women.

The heightened cardiovascular risk associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been documented by several researchers. The Framingham risk score (FRS) provides a simple and efficient method for identifying individuals at cardiovascular risk. The objective was to describe the prevalence of MetS and its association with FRS in predicting cardiovascular disease among a cohort of semi-urban women; Clinical and laboratory parameters were evaluated among 189 healthy women.

Public perception of climate change and its impact on health and environment in rural southwestern Nigeria.

Background: Climate change (CC) has received extensive media attention recently, and it is currently on the international public health agenda. A study of knowledge and attitudes to climate change, most especially from rural Nigerian communities, is important for developing adaptation strategies. This is a study of public perceptions of CC and its impact on health and environment in rural southwestern Nigeria.

Barriers to use of modern contraceptives among women in an inner city area of Osogbo metropolis, Osun state, Nigeria.

Objectives: To determine the knowledge and attitudes on modern contraceptive use of women living in an inner city area of Osogbo.

Materials And Methods: Three hundred and fifty nine women of childbearing age were studied utilizing a community-based, descriptive, cross-sectional study design. A multistage random sampling technique was used in recruiting respondents to the study.

Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of epilepsy among secondary school teachers in Osogbo South-West Nigeria: a community based study.

Background: The attitudes toward people with epilepsy are influenced by the degree of knowledge of the condition. The social problems encountered by school children with epilepsy as a result of negative attitude and beliefs are quite enormous.

Objectives: The study therefore looked at the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of teachers, who see a lot of epileptics, relate to them on a daily basis and have influence on them.

Sharp injuries among hospital waste handlers.

Background: Health care workers are generally predisposed to injuries from sharps as a health hazard. This is more pronounced among waste handlers.

Objective: It is therefore important to assess these injuries among this group of people with a view to identifying the risk factors and suggesting preventive methods.

Management of motorcycle limb trauma in a teaching hospital in south-western Nigeria.

Background: To evaluate the management of limb injuries sustained from motorcycle accidents.

Method: Consecutive 115 patients managed for limb injuries secondary to motorcycle trauma over a one-year period were prospectively studied.

Results: There were 115 patients out of which seventy-six (66.

Predictors of request for antenatal sex determination among pregnant women in Osogbo, Nigeria.

Background: Prenatal ultrasonograpghy is a useful diagnostic tool in modern day obstetrics. However, its application in prenatal sex determination would continue to attract reactions and comments. The objective of the study was to identify factors associated with fetal sex determination during ultrasonography,

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among the pregnant women in SouthWestern Nigeria, to determine factors associated with willingness to know the sex of their unborn child using structured questionnaires.

Knowledge, attitudes to HIV/AIDS and sexual behaviour of students in a tertiary institution in south-western Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitude and sexual behaviour of students in a tertiary institution in south western Nigeria with regard to HIV/AIDS.

Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional survey conducted between January and March 2005. Information was collected from 368 students of a tertiary institution in Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.

Tuberculosis treatment outcomes in State Hospital, Osogbo, southwestern Nigeria: a four year review.

Background: A retrospective review of all cases of tuberculosis (TB) enrolled in the directly observed treatment-short course chemotherapy (DOT-SCC) between June 2000 and June 2004 at a General Hospital in Southwestern Nigeria was undertaken. The aim is to determine treatment outcomes and ascertain the effectiveness of the programme for TB control.

Methodology: Case registers of all TB patients enrolled were reviewed and data obtained analyzed by statistical methods.

College students in Nigeria underestimate their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS infection.

Objectives: To assess the perceptions of personal risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS infection among students of selected tertiary institutions in Osun State, Nigeria and to determine the correlates of perceptions of personal risk of infection.

Methods: The study employed a cross-sectional descriptive design. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was applied to the 405 study participants and correlates of perceptions of personal risk of HIV infection were evaluated using multiple logistic regression analysis, confidence intervals and odd ratios.

Sociodemographic characteristics and health risk behaviours among students of a tertiary institution in south western Nigeria.

The identification of early risk factors among undergraduate students that impact on health, both mental and physical is a primary focus of this survey. This is more so since people suffering from an illness may not be currently engaging in any health risk behaviours but might have engaged in such behaviours before they developed the illness condition. Therefore the identification of health risk behaviours among this group of people would permit a better understanding of localized patterns of health risk behaviours as well as help to target intervention activities towards this particular group of people.

Correlates of physicians' attitudes toward communication with HIV/AIDS patients in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Objectives: The study assessed physicians' perceptions of HIV/AIDS patients and identified the determinants of physicians' attitudes toward communication with HIV/AIDS patients in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from 110 physicians in a cross-sectional survey, while in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who had been previously admitted under the care of the physicians. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyzes were conducted.

Men's knowledge of and attitude with respect to family planning in a suburban Nigerian community.

Background: Men's Knowledge of and attitudes to family planning (FP) in suburban and rural Nigeria is still poor despite a global move to increase the involvement of men in reproductive health matters. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to determine men's knowledge of and attitude to family planning at Ganmo, a sub-urban community on the outskirts of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Method: The study employed an interviewer administered semi-structured questionnaire to elicit information from 360 men in the households.