Awawu Grace Nmadu

Kaduna State University · Department of Community Medicine

Introduction: Anaemia among children is an issue of significant concern within the realm of public health due to its potential to result in significant adverse outcomes, including cognitive deficits and growth deficiencies. Its prevalence exhibits regional variations, wherein larger frequencies are observed in regions characterized by lower levels...

The importance of health in every society cannot be over-emphasised. Public health has a key goal of prevention of diseases, provision of promotive, protective and curative health services. This paper discussed the relationship between public health, genomics and bioinformatics and the several benefits of the positive interactions in the advancemen...

Establishing and proving methodological rigor has long been a challenge for qualitative researchers where quantitative methods prevail, but much published literature on qualitative analysis assumes a relatively small number of researchers working in relative proximity. This is particularly true for research conducted with a grounded theory approach...

Flood is a common disaster globally with devastating impact. Community flood disaster preparedness is neglected in developing countries, Nigeria inclusive, especially in the rural areas. This study assessed and compared the level of community flood disaster preparedness in flood-prone rural and urban communities in Kaduna State. A mixed method comp...

Background: Households are important elements in food disaster preparedness and play important role in its management. This study compared household food disaster preparedness in food-prone rural and urban communities in Kaduna State. Methods: The comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among households in foodprone rural and urban communit...

Background: Obstetric ultrasound has become an indispensable part of modern antenatal care (ANC) in both developing and industrialized countries and has become universally accepted as an effective tool for prenatal and antenatal care throughout the world. Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude and use of obstetrics ultrasound among pregnant women a...

Much of the methodological literature on rapid qualitative analysis describes processes used by a relatively small number of researchers focusing on one study site and using rapid analysis to replace a traditional analytical approach. In this paper, we describe the experiences of a transnational research consortium integrating both rapid and tradit...

Background: Obstetric ultrasound has become an indispensable part of modern antenatal care (ANC) in both developing and industrialized countries and has become universally accepted as an effective tool for prenatal and antenatal care throughout the world. Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude and use of obstetrics ultrasound among pregnant women a...

Background: Despite the global progress made in reducing maternal mortality in the past two decades, the health of adolescents and young adult women (10-24 years) has been neglected based on the wrong assumption that they are healthy, especially in a developing country like Nigeria; this is despite the fact that adolescents and young adults (AYA) c...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of workplace violence and associated factors in secondary health facilities in Kaduna Metropolis. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study where a semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain data from 177 health workers who were selected by multistage sampling. The Data was analyzed using SPSS version 2...

Background Domestic violence is a global issue of public health concern with detrimental effects on women’s physical, mental and social well-being. There is a paucity of community-based studies assessing the knowledge and attitude of women towards domestic violence in Nigeria. Objective To assess knowledge, attitudes, prevalence and associated fac...

Background: Tree cutting is one of the causes of climate change and a common practice in Africa, a continent under significant threat from climate change. Therefore, climate change awareness and mitigation are vital to reducing its impacts in the region. Reforestation through planting of trees is an important carbon emission reduction strategy. Thi...

The emergence of the RNA virus SARS-CoV2, the causative agent of COVID-19 and its declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic has disrupted the delicate balance in health indices globally. Its attendant immune dysregulation and pathobiology is still evolving. Currently, real time PCR is the gold standard diagnostic test, howeve...

The need to improve the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights of adolescents is increasingly acknowledged. Unfortunately, many adolescents in Nigeria face significant barriers to accessing quality sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS), despite national policies promoting SRHS for adolescents. This paper explores the stigma influe...

Background: There is a dearth of qualitative studies exploring in-depth barriers that adolescents face in accessing and utilising reproductive health services (RHS) in Nigerian primary healthcare centres. Aim: This study explored the barriers hindering adolescents’ access to and utilisation of RHS in primary healthcare centres. Setting: This study...

Background: A healthy worker is a productive worker and an asset to the organisation and the country at large. Occupational health and safety in Nigeria is in a poor state; with no comprehensive occupational health monitoring system for work-related diseases and injuries. Work-related accidents and diseases continue to be a serious problem in both...

Background The risk of transmission of hepatitis B and C (HBV and HCV) infection is of particular concern among medical students training in high endemic regions. In this study,we investigated the risk and prevalence of hepatitis B and C viruses among preclinical medical students in a government-owned medical school in northwestern Nigeria. Methods...

Background: Family planning (FP) refers to a conscious effort by a couple to limit or space the number of children they want using contraceptive methods. This study examined the determinants for child spacing among women of reproductive age at the family planning clinic of the UngwanRimi Primary Health Care facility, Kaduna North LGA, North western...

Globally, more than 830 women die daily from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications especially in developing countries. Despite its importance, utilization of postnatal care services in Nigeria is very low due to various factors. This study assessed and compared the factors affecting the utilization of postnatal care services in primary heal...

Obesity is an epidemic disease in many developed countries and an emerging public health problem in developing countries, particularly in urban settings.The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity and the associated factors among adult residentsin Goni Gora community in Kaduna State. The study was conducted in Go...

ABSTRACT Ageing populations present a challenge to all regions of the world. This challenge is, however, greatest in Africa which will experience the fastest rate of population ageing than any other region as projected to be in 2050. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the percentage of people aged 60 years and above is predicted to...

Background: Nigeria like the rest of the world is exposed to a wide range of natural and human-induced disasters such as flood, plane crash, communal clashes, and postelection violence and recently, insurgency from Boko Haram. Most of these disasters have led to population displacement and its consequences. This study assessed the social characteri...

Abstract: Introduction Medical law and ethics, as integral to medical curriculum, is at its embryonic stage in most developing countries, including Nigeria. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge, perception and practice of medical ethics, among medical doctors in secondary health care facilities in Kaduna Metropolis, North-Western Nigeria...

Introduction Medical law and ethics, as integral to medical curriculum, is at its embryonic stage in most developing countries, including Nigeria. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge, perception and practice of medical ethics, among medical doctors in secondary health care facilities in Kaduna Metropolis, North-Western Nigeria. Methods...

Background: Induced abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality in developing countries. Abortion has not been liberalized in Nigeria and various studies have reported the high prevalence of unsafe abortion in countries where induced abortion has been restricted. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence perceptions determi...

In 1980, after decades of efforts by the World Health Organization, the World Health Assembly endorsed the formal declaration of the global eradication of smallpox. Since the successful eradication of smallpox in late the 1970s, the last case of wild smallpox occurring in Somalia in 1977, mankind has been hopeful and optimistic that the eradication...

Background: The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is a mandatory entrance examination for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria (medical students inclusive) since 1978. An additional examination, the post‐UTME was introduced in 2005 because UTMEs were considered to be generally untidy, uncoordinated and...

In Nigeria, just like in many other parts of the world, one of the most extensively discussed issues on the public agenda today is the increase in prison population. The aims of imprisonment are protection, retribution, deterrence, reformation and vindication. Investigations revealed that the prison services have been,neglected more than any other...

The operations of health facilities generate waste; a common characteristic of hospitals and Primary Healthcare centres. However, improper handling of hospital waste constitutes potential risks to the environment and human health. Unfortunately, hospital waste management is not yet carried out with a satisfactory level of safety in many parts of th...

Since the evolution of health law and ethics in the 1960s, following outcry against unbearable levels of inhumane practices in the medical profession, medical law and ethics is now deliberately strategically central to medical training in most developed countries. To a great extent, this has led to the supplant of medical paternalism by patients’ a...

Background Healthcare workers and medical students are at risk of acquiring blood borne infections through occupational exposure to blood and body fluids. This study aims to assess the risk exposure, vaccination status and sero-prevalence of blood borne viral hepatitis in students prior to commencement of clinical course. Methods A cross-sectiona...