Correlates of Quality of Life in Caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective Disorder: A Study From Southwestern Nigeria.

Objective: Quality of life and its correlates were studied in two groups of family caregivers of patients with major mental disorders-Schizophrenia (SZ) and Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD).

Method: Family caregivers of SZ and BPAD patients were consecutively recruited to the study (n=100 for each group). Caregivers were screened for quality of life (QOL) measures, caregiver burden, symptoms of anxiety and depression, using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF), the Pai and Kapur Family Burden Interview Schedule (FBIS) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Inventory (HADS) respectively.

Akwa Ibom AIDS indicator survey: Key findings and lessons learnt.

Background: The burden of HIV/AIDS epidemic is huge, but this varies widely by population in Nigeria. Data that could be used to guide the scale up of HIV prevention and control strategies has significant gaps. The study sought to estimate the prevalence of HIV and its associated determinants in Akwa Ibom state.

Self-esteem following maxillofacial and orthopedic injuries: preliminary observations in sub-Saharan Africans.

Background: The face is a vital component of one's personality and body image while extremities are important in function (mobility, routine daily activities). Recovery and rehabilitation from acquired maxillofacial and orthopedic traumas are psychological in nature.

Methods: This was a prospective study of recruited subjects in a Nigerian University teaching hospital.

Comparative study of anxiety and depression following maxillofacial and orthopedic injuries. Study from a Nigerian University Teaching Hospital.

This study hopes to compare levels of anxiety and depression in the maxillofacial and orthopedic injured patients over a period of 12 weeks. This was a prospective, repeated measure design. A total of 160 participants (80 with maxillofacial and 80 with long bone fractures) had repeated review follow-ups within 1 week of arrival in the hospital (Time 1), 4-8 weeks after initial contact (Time 2) and 10-12 weeks thereafter (Time 3), using hospital anxiety and depression scale questionnaire.

Trust in Physician Scale: factor structure, reliability, validity and correlates of trust in a sample of Nigerian psychiatric outpatients.

Background: Trust is essential in the patient-physician relationship and has not been explored among Nigerian psychiatric outpatients.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Trust in Physician Scale among a cross-sectional sample of stable Nigerian outpatients receiving treatment for psychiatric disorders.

Methods: A consecutive sample of outpatients attending a Nigerian university teaching hospital psychiatric clinic in South-western Nigeria completed the scale (N=223).

[Burden and psychological distress among Nigerian family caregivers of schizophrenic patients: the role of positive and negative symptoms].

Objective: To determine the relationship between symptoms of schizophrenia and caregiver burden/distress among caregivers of people with schizophrenia in southwestern Nigeria.

Method: One hundred and one family caregivers of 101 patients with schizophrenia were recruited into the study. Caregivers were screened with the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) to measure caregiver burden and the 30 item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) to measure psychological distress.

Factors associated with psychological morbidity in mothers of pre-term infants: a study from Wesley Guild Hospital, Nigeria.

This was a cross-sectional prospective study of 57 mothers of pre-term infants consecutively recruited from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, Nigeria, between April and August 2009. The mothers were screened for psychological morbidity using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Inventory (HADS). More than one-third of these mothers (36.

Erectile dysfunction in a sample of patients attending a psychiatric outpatient department.

To assess the prevalence of erectile dysfunction among a sample of patients attending a psychiatric clinic, we administered the International Index of Erectile Function on 108 male patients attending the clinic. We also obtained sociodemographic and clinical variables from the patients. The mean age of the patients studied was 39.

[Demographic and clinical correlates of length of stay in a Nigerian university hospital psychiatric unit].

Objective: To investigate the clinical and demographic correlates of prolonged hospital stays in a cohort of Nigerian psychiatric in-patients.

Methods: The investigation covered a 5 year period of psychiatric inpatient admissions at a Nigerian general hospital psychiatric and the records of 584 admitted and discharged patients that fulfilled the inclusion criteria were analyzed. Data were collected on demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients.

Health-related quality of life in Nigerian patients with facial trauma and controls: a preliminary survey.

We examined the health-related quality of life (HR QoL) of patients with facial trauma and compared it with that of healthy controls; temporal changes in HR QoL of patients over 12 weeks compared with baseline values; and whether the risk of depression could be identified by baseline HR QoL. For 26 months we recruited 126 consecutive patients with facial injuries and 126 age and sex-matched healthy controls for the study. Enrollment criteria included age 18 years and over, Glasgow coma scale score on admission of 12 and over, and duration of stay of more than 24 hours.

Psychological complications of maxillofacial trauma: preliminary findings from a Nigerian university teaching hospital.

Purpose: This study sought to determine 1) the prevalence of psychological distress in a series of subjects who sustained maxillofacial injuries and 2) temporal changes in psychological functioning over 12 weeks compared with baseline values.

Patients And Methods: This was a prospective, repeated-measures design study of consecutively recruited subjects at a Nigerian university teaching hospital. A total of 51 subjects with facial injuries had repeated follow-up assessments (10 days, 6 to 8 weeks, and 10 to 12 weeks) after the trauma, using standard instruments.

Demographic factors and clinical correlates of burden and distress in relatives of service users experiencing schizophrenia: a study from south-western Nigeria.

Caregivers burden is an important area of clinical work that is often neglected, particularly in relatives of patients with psychosis. The aim of the present study is to examine if some demographic factors and symptoms of illness bear a relationship with burden and distress levels in their caregivers. This cross-sectional study involved patients with chronic schizophrenia and their relatives.

Postpartum emotional distress: a controlled study of Nigerian women after caesarean childbirth.

The study investigated postpartum emotional distress including depression among 47 Nigerian women who had a caesarean section by comparing them at 6-8 weeks following childbirth with 47 matched controls who had normal vaginal delivery. Analysis of scores on the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) showed that women that delivered by caesarean section were significantly different from the controls on the GHQ and BDI scores in the postpartum period. Apart from marital status, other sociodemographic variables did not significantly contribute to psychopathology in this group of women.

Psychiatric morbidity associated with caesarean section: a study from Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, Nigeria.

Fifty-five women who presented at Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, Nigeria, for either elective or emergency caesarean section during a 5-month period (1 December 2003 - 30 April 2004) were recruited consecutively and assessed for psychiatric morbidity using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the State Version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Twenty-two women (40%), were cases on the GHQ, and the BDI was able to pick 11 women with depression in the study sample. The mean anxiety score for the entire study population was 41.

Psychiatric symptoms in surgical patients: an assessment of the course of anxiety.

Fifty five (55) patients consecutively booked for major elective surgery were assessed pre-operatively for minor psychiatric symptoms and baseline anxiety levels using the GHQ - 30 and the state version of the state - Trait Anxiety inventory (STAI). Measurements of post-operative anxiety levels were also done for the seven consecutive post-operative days using the STAl. The prevalence of minor psychiatric morbidity was 38%.

Emotional distress and strain in relatives of patients with severe mental disorders: a comparative study.

The levels of emotional distress and strain were examined in two groups of relatives of psychiatric patients using standard instruments. The dementia group had more GHQ--30 cases than the schizophrenic group. Even though the schizophrenic relatives had higher distress and strain scores than the dementia relatives, they did not reach significant levels when the two groups were compared.

Post partum emotional distress in mothers of preterm infants: a controlled study.

Objective: To investigate whether mothers of preterm infants experience more psychological distress than mothers of normal full term infants in the immediate postpartum period.

Design: Cross sectional prospective study of postpartal women using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the GHQ-30.

Setting: Neonatal intensive care units and the obstetric units of Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa and Multipurpose Health Centre, Ilesa (These are component Units of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Osun State Nigeria).

A controlled trial of modified electroconvulsive therapy in schizophrenia in a Nigerian teaching hospital.

The efficacy of ECT in the treatment of Schizophrenia was investigated in a double blind controlled trial. The ICD-10 criteria for Schizophrenia were fulfilled by the 20 patients who entered the trial. Consecutive individuals who satisfied the inclusion criteria were randomly allocated to a course of (bilateral) six real or simulated ECTs each as applicable.