Problem gambling among secondary school adolescents in Enugu, Nigeria.

Background: Adolescent problem gambling is a common behavioural issue and could be associated with internet addiction.

Objectives: To determine the pattern of problem gambling and factors that predict gambling among adolescents that attended secondary schools in southeast Nigeria.

Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study design.

Dependent Personality, Mindful Awareness, and Marital Satisfaction and their Association with Postpartum Psychological Distress in Two Tertiary Hospitals, Southeast Nigeria.

This study assessed dependent personality, marital satisfaction, and mindful awareness and their association with postpartum depression and anxiety. It was a cross-sectional study of nursing mothers, within 6-14 weeks postpartum, at the postnatal and children's welfare clinics of two tertiary hospitals in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria. The nursing mothers responded to different questionnaires that measure each of these variables.

Socio-demographic correlates of postpartum psychological distress among apparently healthy mothers in two tertiary hospitals in Enugu, South-East Nigeria.

Background: Postpartum depression and anxiety could cause poor mother-infant relationship that could impair infant growth and cognitive development. Psychiatric assessment has not been part of periodic evaluations in postnatal clinics. Some apparently well, but high-risk mothers continue to live with psychological distress, without treatment to relieve their burden.

Post-partum depression, anxiety and marital satisfaction: A perspective from Southeastern Nigeria.

Background: Many studies have noted the high prevalence of post-partum depression (PPD) and anxiety associated with poor marital satisfaction, albeit amidst a dearth of literature on comorbid PPD and anxiety among women in Nigeria.

Objective: The study was aimed to assess the prevalence of PPD and anxiety, and to investigate their relationship with marital satisfaction in low-risk women in Enugu, Southeastern Nigeria.

Method: A cross-sectional study of 309 randomly selected nursing mothers at two tertiary health institutions.

Psychosocial correlates of perceived stress among undergraduate medical students in Nigeria.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence and factors associated with perceived stress among medical students.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of students (n=623) selected across eight medical schools in Nigeria. A structured questionnaire obtained socio-demographic characteristics, alcohol use (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test), other psychoactive drug use (Drug Abuse Screening Test), anxiety/depression symptoms (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale) and stress (Perceived Medical School Stress Scale).

Clinical Correlates of Treatment Response among Patients with Schizophrenia in a Tertiary Nigerian Hospital.

A significant proportion of patients treated for schizophrenia respond poorly to medication. Few studies have systematically examined the impact of clinical characteristics of patients to antipsychotic response in our environment. The study aimed to identify clinical variables associated with response in patients with schizophrenia.

Socio-demographic correlates of treatment response among patients with schizophrenia in a tertiary hospital in South-East Nigeria.

Background: Many patients with schizophrenia respond poorly to antipsychotic medication. Few studies have systematically examined the relationship of social and demographic characteristics of these patients to treatment response in our environment.

Objective: To identify the social and demographic variables associated with treatment response in patients with schizophrenia.

Relationship between religiosity, religious coping and socio-demographic variables among out-patients with depression or diabetes mellitus in Enugu, Nigeria.

Background: Religion is a powerful coping strategy. Diabetes and depression are common conditions in our environment that induce psychological distress, thus requiring coping for better outcome. Studies indicate that increased religiosity is associated with better outcome in clinical and general populations.

The socio-demographic characteristics and patterns of help-seeking among patients with schizophrenia in south-east Nigeria.

A large proportion of psychiatric patients in Nigeria seek help from other sources which ultimately lead to treatment delay. Treatment delay could have deleterious effects on treatment outcome especially for people with schizophrenia. The study aimed to determine the socio-demographic characteristics associated with treatment delay in people with schizophrenia.

Neuropsychiatric diagnosis and psychotropic medication prescription patterns in a mental hospital-based child and adolescent psychiatric service in Nigeria.

Mental hospital-based data on child and adolescent psychiatric services are uncommon in low-resource countries, although such data are important for service development and planning. Data are reported on neuropsychiatric diagnoses and psychotropic medication prescription in a child and adolescent psychiatric service in southeastern Nigeria. Schizophrenia-like and other psychotic disorders, followed by seizure disorders, were the most prevalent, while the least prevalent included autism spectrum disorders, enuresis, adolescent postpartum psychosis, and adjustment disorders, among others.