Publications by authors named "P O Adekola"

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  • The study investigates how children's perceptions of their social and socioeconomic status (subjective status) affect feelings of fullness (satiation) and hunger (satiety) after eating.
  • It found that children with lower subjective social status (SSS) feel less satiated after eating and report higher hunger levels over the next 90 minutes.
  • The findings suggest that experiencing low subjective status might dull feelings of fullness, potentially leading to overeating and higher body mass in children and adolescents.
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Violent social and political conflicts have caused several challenges to internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially girls and young women, among which is sexual violence (SV). Despite extensive records on SV in humanitarian contexts, studies to assess the level, examine the disclosure pattern (DP) and evaluate the availability of abortion care in these settings have received inadequate attention. This scoping review sought to synthesise the current African-based research on SV, DP, and abortion and post-abortion care (APAC) in humanitarian contexts.

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  • Dieting might make people feel like they can't control their eating, but this study found that it might not be true for kids and teens.
  • The researchers let kids eat as much as they wanted and looked at how much they ate while checking if they were on a diet.
  • They found that only a few kids were dieting, and it didn’t change how much they ate, so more experiments are needed to understand this better.
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The incidence of short marital duration due to the demise of a husband that often exposes young widows to in-laws' exploitation of the asset of the deceased spouses, without regard for negative health consequences and potential vulnerability to poverty has not been exhaustively investigated, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where 16% of adult women are widows. The study examined the coping mechanisms among the young widow (aged ≤ 40) who have experienced short conjugal relationships (≤5 years) and burdensome from in-laws. The research design followed a qualitative approach with the aid of semi-structured in-depth interviews among 13 young widows selected through snowballing and informant-led approaches in the purposively selected communities.

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