Culture-bound syndromes and the neglect of cultural factors in psychopathologies among AfricansO F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria
Afr J Psychiatry (Johannesbg) 14:278-85. 2011
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Sexual maturation and psychiatric morbidity among persons with sickle cell anaemia in a Nigerian teaching hospitalOlatunji F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Int J Psychiatry Med 40:31-43. 2010
..Impaired physical and sexual development is one of the prominent complications of SCA; and with attendant secondary psychiatric sequelae...
- Normative data on mental and motor development in Nigerian children
O F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine University of Lagos
West Afr J Med 24:151-6. 2005
..Hence, this study set out to establish normative data for psychomotor development on Nigerian children...
- Alcohol and substance use portrayals in Nigerian video tapes: an analysis of 479 films and implications for public drug education
Olatunji F Aina
University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Int Q Community Health Educ 28:63-71. 2007
..The need to censor video tapes on substance use portrayal was advocated...
- Ogun Oru: a traditional explanation for nocturnal neuropsychiatric disturbances among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria
O F Aina
College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Transcult Psychiatry 44:44-54. 2007
..Ogun oru may be a label applied to medical problems. The differential diagnosis includes mainly parasomnias, for example, sleep terror, sleepwalking and sleep paralysis and, to a lesser extent, nocturnal or sleep epilepsy...
- Epidemiology of psychoactive drug use amongst adolescents in metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria
Oluwole Famuyiwa
Department of Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 12003, Lagos, Nigeria
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 20:351-9. 2011
..We advocate properly articulated school-based educative programmes that can facilitate drug demand reduction...
- Mother's knowledge of sickle-cell anaemia in Nigeria
Oluwole O Famuyiwa
University of Lagos, Nigeria
Int Q Community Health Educ 30:69-80. 2009
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- An overview of the socio-cultural and psychiatric aspects of women's reproductive health in West Africa
O F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos P M B 12003, Lagos Nigeria
Niger Postgrad Med J 14:231-7. 2007
..It is thus advocated that improvement in the maternal and child health care component of the primary health care (PHC) services will go a long way to attenuate the psychiatric complications associated with childbirth...
- Prospective case-control study of interictal depression and suicidal ideation in Nigerians with epilepsy
N U Okubadejo
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Niger Postgrad Med J 14:204-8. 2007
..This study was designed to determine the frequency and clinical correlates of interictal depression and suicidal ideation in PWE...
- Postpartum depression in a maternity hospital in Nigeria
O A Owoeye
Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
East Afr Med J 81:616-9. 2004
..CONCLUSION: It is concluded that there is need to update the obstetric team's knowledge on the management of PPD through Continuous Medical Education (CME) to which 97.2% of them agreed...
- One year of EEG unit at psychiatric hospital, Yaba, Lagos
O F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, P. M. B. 12003, Lagos, Nigeria
Niger Postgrad Med J 11:212-4. 2004
..Despite the notable constraints involved, EEG continues to be of immense value in the management of neuro-pathological disorders in Nigeria...
- Risk factors of postpartum depression and EPDS scores in a group of Nigerian women
A O Owoeye
Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Trop Doct 36:100-3. 2006
..It is concluded that PPD is a major complication of childbirth in Nigeria, which can be minimized by improving both the citizens' socioeconomic condition and providing cheaper and more efficient health-care services...
- An assessment of emotional pain among subjects with chronic dermatological problems in Lagos, Nigeria
O A Owoeye
Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Int J Psychiatry Med 37:129-38. 2007
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- Ten-year mortality review in a pioneer psychiatric hospital in West Africa
I O Malomo
Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. Nigeria
East Afr Med J 80:379-83. 2003
..Finally, infections/infestations still continue to play leading role as major causes of death in the West African sub-region...
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome (acquired epileptic aphasia) in a Nigerian child
O F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, P.M.B. 12003, Lagos, Nigeria
Niger Postgrad Med J 9:29-31. 2002
..The clinical seizure is easily controlled by an antiepileptic; but speech recovery is variable, and this is usually poor in cases presenting one or two years after onset...
- The validation of Developmental Screening Inventory (DSI) on Nigerian children
O F Aina
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL, Nigeria
J Trop Pediatr 47:323-8. 2001
..Cheapness and ease of administration, as reported elsewhere, further enhance the suitability of DSI as an instrument for use in paediatric practice in Nigeria and probably in other African countries...
