Mental Health Burden and Facilitators Among Frontline Healthcare Professionals in Nigeria Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the frontline healthcare providers faced significant mental health stressors. Previous pandemics have revealed the need for psychosocial support and healthy coping mechanisms to mitigate mental health risks.

Aim: The study aimed to assess psychological impact and supportive mechanisms experienced by frontline healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients in Kaduna State.

Psychometric Properties of the Modified Family Affluence Scale (FAS II) among Adolescents in Nigeria: A Preliminary Report.

Objective: Social inequalities have serious health consequences for the developing child. Measuring these disparities is challenging, and the Family Affluence Scale (version II), a proxy indicator based on material wealth, was developed as a solution. However, it has not been validated for use in Sub-Saharan Africa and may not be applicable in developing countries.

Drugs of Abuse among In-Patients Receiving Treatment for Substance Use Disorders in a Tertiary Health Care Center in South-South Nigeria: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Recently, there has been an increase in the abuse of relatively newer substances sometimes in unusual combinations. Some of these drugs and their street names are unfamiliar to researchers and clinicians, hindering their identification. Our objective was to investigate current trends in drug abuse, focusing on eliciting drugs of use and their street names in Calabar, Nigeria.

EHR health seeking behavior of patients attending eye clinic in Southern Nigeria.

Background: Health-seeking behavior is important as it reveals the preventive, curative, and rehabilitative actions taken by individuals to rectify perceived ill-health.

Aim And Objectives: To identify existing eye health-seeking behavior, factors influencing such behavior, and suggest ways in which the system can respond to the needs of the target population in order to reduce visual impairment and blindness.

Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study; 600 respondents were interviewed using a semistructured pretested questionnaire administered to every fifth new patient attending the eye clinic of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) for a period of 5 months by a single interviewer.

Pattern and predictors of Brain Fag syndrome among senior secondary school students in Calabar, Nigeria.

Context: Brain Fag syndrome (BFS) is a culture-bound disorder that is quite common among Nigerian students. It is known to be associated with study difficulty, and in severe cases, discontinuation of education. Little is known about its pattern and predictors among secondary school (SS) students in Calabar.

Fear of future terrorism: Associated psychiatric burden.

Background: The mental health burden from fear of future terrorism has not been given much research attention compared to the immediate mental distress such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Such neglected ongoing mental health morbidity associated with threats of terrorism had been described as pre-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS).

Objective: The study highlighted this phenomenon (PTSS) in Nigeria by examining the catastrophic burden of the fear of future terrorism and associated psychiatric burden among adult population in Kaduna city.

Depression in patients with epilepsy in Northwestern Nigeria: Prevalence and clinical correlates.

Background: The impact of seizure disorder on people living with epilepsy (PWE) is worsened by the occurrence of comorbid psychiatric disorders, such as depression, which have been found commonly in PWE. Despite the dire consequences comorbid depression has on PWE, it still remains underdiagnosed and undertreated.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of depression and associated clinical factors in PWE in Northwestern Nigeria.

Assessing Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness among Psychoactive Substance Users in Northern Nigeria.

Studies on psychoactive substance use in Nigeria had focused on prevalence and rarely on treatment implication(s) of large rates reported. Further challenge was to find suitable instruments to monitor change readiness as well as predict treatment outcomes along motivation continuum and according to resilience characteristics. Such ability will not only help to match treatment strategy with stage of change but also come with a more satisfactory outcome.

Patient-doctor relationship: the practice orientation of doctors in Kano.

Background And Objectives: Attitude and orientation of doctors to the doctor-patient relationship has a direct influence on delivery of high quality health- care. No study to the knowledge of these researchers has so far examined the practice orientation of doctors in Nigeria to this phenomenon. The aims of this study were to determine the orientation of Kano doctors to the practice of doctor-patient relationship and physicians' related-factors.

Prevalence of asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction in hypertensive Nigerians: echocardiographic study of 832 subjects.

Background: We sought to determine the prevalence of echocardiographically determined left ventricular systolic dysfunction in asymptomatic hypertensive subjects seen in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Methods: Echocardiography was performed in 832 consecutive hypertensive subjects referred for cardiac evaluation over a three-year period.

Results: Data were obtained in 832 subjects (50.

Psychometric assessment of the Wagnild and Young's resilience scale in Kano, Nigeria.

Background: Resilience seemed to lie at the core of the recent promotion of positive mental health and wellbeing. This concept has been well studied in western countries and less in developing countries, particularly Nigeria. The aim of the study is therefore, to demonstrate the internal consistency and concurrent validity of the Resilience Scale (RS) and its 14-item short version (RS-14) in a Nigerian sample.

A comparative study of aggression amongst Nigerian university students in Niger Delta region.

There is genuine concern over social violence and aggression among youths in many countries. Despite considerable efforts directed toward molding the pattern of model behavior, frequent disturbances and various antisocial vices among youths in our environment may be due to failure to acknowledge the risk factors associated with aggression. The objective of this study was to assess the level of aggressive traits among students in higher institutions, as well as identifying the possible predictive factors.

Common psychiatric disorders over a lifetime: age of onset, risk and treatment contact in the Nigerian survey of mental health and wellbeing.

The study is to estimate prevalence, risk, and contact with services of mental health problems in the Nigerian community. Face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of persons aged 18 years and over (n = 6752) using the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview, Version 3. Lifetime DSM-IV prevalence estimates were 6.

Spectrum of heart diseases in a new cardiac service in Nigeria: an echocardiographic study of 1441 subjects in Abeokuta.

Background: Echocardiography is a non-invasive, relatively cheap and useful imaging technique for the evaluation of cardiac diseases. The procedure has reliable levels of accuracy. Echocardiography commenced at the Federal medical centre Abeokuta on September 9, 2005.

Comorbidity and impact of chronic spinal pain in Nigeria.

Study Design: A cross-sectional survey of households selected using multistage stratified sampling.

Objective: This paper investigates the prevalence of chronic spinal pain, its profile of comorbidity, and its impact on role disability in Nigeria.

Summary Of Background Data: Study was conducted in 21 states representing 57% of the national population.

A descriptive epidemiology of substance use and substance use disorders in Nigeria during the early 21st century.

Background: Several studies have examined the use of psychoactive substances among selected groups in Nigeria. Here, we extend the description to include the features of substance dependence.

Method: A stratified multi-stage random sampling of households was used to select respondents in 21 of Nigeria's 36 states (representing 57% of the national population).

Psychiatric morbidity in patients with sickle cell anaemia.

The prevalence of mild psychiatric morbidity in 38 sickle cell anaemia patients who had been in steady state for more than three months was compared with that of a matched control. Psychiatric morbidity was assessed using Goldberg general health questionnaire and the Leeds self assessment for depression and anxiety. The prevalence rate of psychiatric morbidity among the patients was 63% and among the control 21%.

Demographic, life style and anthropometric correlates of blood pressure of Nigerian urban civil servants, factory and plantation workers.

Demographic, life style and anthropometric correlates of blood pressure were analysed in 5,200 civil servants, factory and plantation workers living in an urban setting in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. The subjects were 4,382 men (84.2%) and 818 (15.

A disappearing urban/rural blood pressure difference in Nigerian children: an evaluation of possible determining factors.

Urban Nigerian school children are reported to have a higher systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure than rural community school children until the age of 11-12 years when this difference tends to disappear. We evaluated 874 urban day-school children and 674 rural community school children aged 5-16 (mean 11.9) years in south-eastern Nigeria to confirm this changing pattern, and to assess the contributions of some known factors to the differences as well as the changing pattern.