Papers by Olayinka Omigbodun
Journal of Public Health
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Community Mental Health Journal
Much of the emerging evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on people with psychosocial disabilities ... more Much of the emerging evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on people with psychosocial disabilities comes from high-income countries. This study sought to explore the perceptions and experiences of youths living with psychosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Using a co-produced research process, a facility-based study was conducted among youth with confirmed diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 participants. Data was transcribed, double-coded and analysed with Atlas.ti using a thematic analysis approach. We found that participants were aware of good evidence-based information on the nature of the disease and the pandemic. Many of them described worsening mental health and disruptions to daily routines. Opportunities for deepening family relationships, skill building, helping others, and extended time for previously neglected self-development activities were described. This study benefitted from co-production with persons with lived expe...
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PLOS ONE
Background Child marriage hinders progress toward population health and development goals. Cost e... more Background Child marriage hinders progress toward population health and development goals. Cost effective interventions that address the root causes of child marriage are needed to speed progress toward ending the practice. Nigeria is home to the largest number of married girls in Africa and many of these girls are members of the Hausa ethnic group, making efforts to tackle this issue particularly urgent among this population. Methods Radio programs have the potential to inform large numbers of people about the harms of child marriage and change their support for the practice at low cost. We will develop a series of radio programs that address gender inequitable attitudes that motivate child marriage among Hausa communities in Ibadan, Nigeria. The content of the series will be based on input from the Hausa community. A baseline survey that measures knowledge of and support for child marriage will be conducted among randomly selected samples of Hausa adults in two cities: Ibadan, whi...
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Arthur Kleinman’s 2009 Lancet commentary described global mental health as a “moral failure of hu... more Arthur Kleinman’s 2009 Lancet commentary described global mental health as a “moral failure of humanity”, asserting that priorities should be based not on the epidemiological and utilitarian economic arguments that tend to favour common mental health conditions like mild to moderate depression and anxiety, but rather on the human rights of those in the most vulnerable situations and the suffering that they experience. Yet more than a decade later, people with severe mental health conditions like psychoses are still being left behind. Here, we add to Kleinman’s appeal a critical review of the literature on psychoses in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting contradictions between local evidence and global narratives surrounding the burden of disease, the outcomes of schizophrenia, and the economic costs of mental health conditions. We identify numerous instances where the lack of regionally representative data and other methodological shortcomings undermine the conclusions of international...
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Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science
Aim: This study was a cluster randomized trial, designed to evaluate the effect of a teachers’ tr... more Aim: This study was a cluster randomized trial, designed to evaluate the effect of a teachers’ training on Classroom-based Interventions for Managing Problem Behaviours in Preschoolers in Nigeria. Methodology: A total of 110 preschool teachers participated in the study. Fifty-five were randomly assigned to each of the intervention and the wait-list groups. Participants in the intervention group received two training sessions on child behaviour problems and management. Data was collected in 3 phases; baseline, immediate post-intervention and one-month post-intervention. Results: The proportion of participants in the intervention group who felt frustrated about managing challenging behaviours, reduced significantly (p=0.045) at follow up (14.5%) compared to baseline (32.7%). There was a statistically significant (p<0.001) increase in the proportion of those who documented problem behaviours occurring at school (72.7%) at follow up, compared to baseline (38.2%). Parti...
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BJPsych Open
Summary This paper introduces the TRANSFORM project, which aims to improve access to mental healt... more Summary This paper introduces the TRANSFORM project, which aims to improve access to mental health services for people with serious and enduring mental disorders (SMDs – psychotic disorders and severe mood disorders, often with co-occurring substance misuse) living in urban slums in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Ibadan (Nigeria). People living in slum communities have high rates of SMDs, limited access to mental health services and conditions of chronic hardship. Help is commonly sought from faith-based and traditional healers, but people with SMDs require medical treatment, support and follow-up. This multicentre, international mental health mixed-methods research project will (a) conduct community-based ethnographic assessment using participatory methods to explore community understandings of SMDs and help-seeking; (b) explore the role of traditional and faith-based healing for SMDs, from the perspectives of people with SMDs, caregivers, community members, healers, community health worke...
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Journal of psychological abnormalities in children, Oct 15, 2015
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ABSTRACTBackgroundNigeria is one of six countries with half the global burden of youth living wit... more ABSTRACTBackgroundNigeria is one of six countries with half the global burden of youth living with HIV. Interventions to date have been inadequate as AIDS-related deaths in Nigeria’s youth have remained unchanged in recent years. The iCARE Nigeria HIV treatment support intervention, a combination of peer navigation and SMS text message medication reminders to promote viral suppression, demonstrated initial efficacy and feasibility in a pilot trial among youth living with HIV in Nigeria. This paper describes the study protocol for the large-scale trial of the intervention.MethodsThe iCARE Nigeria-Treatment study is a randomized stepped wedge trial of a combination (peer navigation and text message reminder) intervention, delivered to youth over a period of 48 weeks to promote viral suppression. Youth receiving HIV treatment at six clinical sites in the North Central and South Western regions of Nigeria were recruited for participation. Eligibility criteria included registration as a ...
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Psychology, Health & Medicine
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The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
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JAMA Network Open, 2022
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Supplemental material, TPS893141 Supplemental Material3 for Perceptions of the psychological expe... more Supplemental material, TPS893141 Supplemental Material3 for Perceptions of the psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) among the Izzi in Southeast Nigeria by Olayinka Omigbodun, Tolulope Bella-Awusah, Danielle Groleau, Jibril Abdulmalik, Nkechi Emma-Echiegu, Babatunde Adedokun and Akinyinka Omigbodun in Transcultural Psychiatry
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Supplemental material, TPS893141 Supplemental Material2 for Perceptions of the psychological expe... more Supplemental material, TPS893141 Supplemental Material2 for Perceptions of the psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) among the Izzi in Southeast Nigeria by Olayinka Omigbodun, Tolulope Bella-Awusah, Danielle Groleau, Jibril Abdulmalik, Nkechi Emma-Echiegu, Babatunde Adedokun and Akinyinka Omigbodun in Transcultural Psychiatry
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Supplemental material, TPS893141 Supplemental Material5 for Perceptions of the psychological expe... more Supplemental material, TPS893141 Supplemental Material5 for Perceptions of the psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) among the Izzi in Southeast Nigeria by Olayinka Omigbodun, Tolulope Bella-Awusah, Danielle Groleau, Jibril Abdulmalik, Nkechi Emma-Echiegu, Babatunde Adedokun and Akinyinka Omigbodun in Transcultural Psychiatry
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International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal, 2021
Aims: This study set out to describe the profile of adolescents admitted unto an inpatient unit i... more Aims: This study set out to describe the profile of adolescents admitted unto an inpatient unit in Nigeria and their evaluation of the service. Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Place and duration of study: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria between January 2016 and February 2020. Methodology: Patient notes and discharge summaries were used to collect the demographic characteristics of adolescents and their families, diagnoses and treatments provided during the hospital stay. A feedback form was used to evaluate different aspects of the service. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, and thematic analysis for open ended responses. Results: There were slightly more females (56.4%) than males (43.6%)admitted during the period of study and their mean age was 18.2 years (SD =3.0). The most common psychiatry diagnosis was psychotic disorders (48.9%) followed by mood disorders (38.3%). Almost half (48...
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Journal of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, 2021
Background: Adolescents with hearing loss are often faced with poor cognitive and executive funct... more Background: Adolescents with hearing loss are often faced with poor cognitive and executive functions, and increased prevalence of mental health problems. The study compared the perceptual reasoning skills (PRI) and mental health problems of deaf adolescents with those of their ageand sexmatched hearing counterparts. Methods: It was a comparative cross-sectional study of a total population (102) of deaf adolescents, who were matched for age and sex with 102 normal hearing adolescents. The PRI of the participants was assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV). Mental health problems were assessed with the parents’ and teachers’ versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Descriptive statistics, chi square test and correlation co-efficient were done. Significant level was set at p-value < 5%. Results: The PRI scores ranged from 41-106 across both groups; 58.8 % of the deaf and 41.2% of the hearing adolescents scored 69 a...
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Introduction: Labelling remains one of the forms of public stigma experienced by persons with men... more Introduction: Labelling remains one of the forms of public stigma experienced by persons with mental illness and this has its attendant consequences not only for the individual sufferer but also for the family members/care-givers and the society as a whole. In a bid to avoid labelling and other forms of public stigma there is a tendency to avoid reporting, denying signs and symptoms of mental illness, seeking treatment as appropriate, or avoiding places where stigmatization is often experienced such as schools or social gatherings. Methods: The study was a Focus Group Discussion that took place in the University of Ibadan. Participants were undergraduate students who were volunteering as prospective mental health peer counsellors. Result: Seventeen volunteers participated in the FGDs. The FGPs volunteered a total of 20 names/terms that are used to refer to or describe people experiencing mental health problems, some of which include “Were!”, “scoin-scoin”, “Aro”, “imbalance”, “break...
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Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care, 2019
The Boko Haram insurgency, which has raged across the northeast region of Nigeria since 2009, has... more The Boko Haram insurgency, which has raged across the northeast region of Nigeria since 2009, has been the deadliest and most protracted outbreak of violence since the country’s civil war from 1967 to 1970. Rejection of western education and civilization sits at the heart of the insurgency, whose end goal is to overthrow the government and replace it with Islamic rule. The group took up arms against the state in 2009, but they were defeated, and their leader was killed. Surviving members subsequently adopted guerrilla warfare tactics and started attacking towns and villages in rural communities. Schools and school children became targets of Boko Haram’s attacks in their bid to discourage western education. Hundreds of students were killed or abducted, including female students at the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State. The consequences have been dire for the region with more than 20,000 fatalities and 3.6 million persons displaced from their homes and forced to find ...
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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2021
OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of a supportive educational intervention on the psychological well... more OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of a supportive educational intervention on the psychological wellbeing of mothers whose babies were admitted to Neonatal Care Unit (NCU) in Nigeria. METHODS Controlled trial involving 41 mothers whose babies were consecutively admitted into two NCUs (21 in the intervention group and 19 controls). The intervention group received two group-based sessions which included psychological coping strategies, and familiarity with NCU environment, equipment, personnel and procedures. The control group received usual care. Outcome measures were depressive symptoms (Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale—EPDS), stress-related to NCU (Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit—PSS: NICU) and post-traumatic symptoms (Impact Event Scale-Revised—IES-R). RESULTS Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis showed a difference of −4.70 in PSS: NICU score in favour of the intervention group which was statistically significant [F(3, 75) = 9.47, p < 0.0001, R2 = 0.2...
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Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021
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