
Adeyinka AdeniranLagos State University | LASU · Department of Community Health and Primary HealthCare
Adeyinka Adeniran
MBBS, MPH, FMCPH
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Introduction
Adeyinka Adeniran currently works at the Department of Community Health and Primary HealthCare, Lagos State University. Adeyinka does research in Medical Technology, Public Health and Clinical Trials. Their current project is 'Improving the Quality of Healthcare in Africa'.
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January 2013 - March 2016
Publications
Publications (52)
Background
Each year, millions of people in low—and middle-income countries such as Nigeria are forced into poverty and financial ruin due to out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenses. Our study assessed the prevalence and determinants of Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditure (CHE) experienced by households in Lagos, Nigeria.
Methods
A descriptive com...
The increased intention of healthcare workers to leave the health sector is one of the many negative impacts of job dissatisfaction and poor working conditions among healthcare workers in Nigeria. This study assessed the level of job satisfaction and the intention of leaving the country or medical practice among primary healthcare workers in Lagos,...
Introduction
This study assessed health insurance uptake, and payment preferences for health insurance enrollment, and identified barriers and facilitators of the utilization of health insurance amongst residents in Lagos State.
Methodology
The study employed a cross-sectional survey design to gather data from 2,490 residents across four local gov...
Background
Hypertension is a significant global public health concern, with unique risk factors affecting those in the banking sector due to their work environment. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of hypertension among bank employees and identify specific contributing risk factors.
Materials and Methods
A cross-sectional survey of 250...
Objective: Dolutegravir, an integrase inhibitor replaced nevirapine or efavirenz (both NRTIs) in a fixed dose combination with Tenofovir/Lamivudine, as the preferred first-line option for the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. This study aimed to assess the treatment outcomes of the new Tenofovir/Lamivudine/Dolutegravir (TLD) regimen at the...
Background
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have been highlighted as a major challenge for sustainable development and an alarming public health challenge of global concern. This study was aimed at assessing the PHC facilities' readiness to provide NCDs management services in Ekiti state, Nigeria.
Methodology
A descriptive cross-sectional study was...
Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that has plagued the world beginning from 2019 when it was first discovered, laudable efforts have been made by science to produce vaccines to mitigate the effects of this disease. This study sought to assess the knowledge of COVID-19 and vaccine acceptability, hesitancy, willingne...
Background
This study aimed to determine the catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Lagos and to identify factors associated with CHE among them.
Methods
The study was a descriptive cross‐sectional survey conducted between January and March 2021 among 578 PLHIVs drawn from various healthcare facilities in...
Background: This study aimed to assess the perception of quality of care among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Lagos, Nigeria, and identify factors influencing their perceptions. Methodology: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey conducted between December 2020 and March 2021 among 578 PLHIVs drawn from various healthcare facilities...
INTRODUCTION: Health insurance is a health-financing mechanism to protect people from catastrophic healthcare costs and limits out-of-pocket spending on healthcare, which is directly linked to poverty. This study assesses the extent of health-insurance uptake and associated factors in Lagos, Nigeria.
METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey...
Introduction:
access to services encompasses three components: availability, affordability, and acceptability. The physical presence of service delivery, which includes health infrastructure, core health staff, and aspects of service use, is referred to as service availability. This study was conducted to inform the health service availability and...
Background
Health care workers (HCWs) in the first line of care play critical roles in providing the correct information about the coronavirus disease to the community. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of virtual training on the knowledge, attitude, and preventive practices among PHC workers and their clients in the prevention...
Background:
The availability of adequate infrastructure, diagnostic medical equipment, medicines and commodities and well-trained medical personnel are essential for the effective delivery of health care services.
Aim:
This study assessed maternal and child health (MCH) services' specific readiness by type and location of the health facility and...
Abstract
Health insurance is gaining more attention worldwide as a means of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by improving access to health care services and protecting households against the financial burden of out-of-pocket expenditures due to ill health. This facility-based descriptive cross-sectional study used a self-administered quest...
Background: The study aimed to determine the socioeconomic implications and safety practices among the waste.pi,ckers at Olusosun dumpsile;-argos , Nigeria. .._-Methods: A cross-sectional design using a total population of two hundred and Seventy waste pickers at Olusosun dumpsite was carried out. Data were collected using an interviewer-administer...
Background: The performances of Primary Health Care workers play key roles in delivering quality health care thereby leading to health systems’ strengthening. This study assessed the managerial capacity of health care managers at Primary Health Care centres in Ekiti State, Nigeria.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out amongst...
Methods: Using a descriptive cross-sectional study design, a total of 402 healthcare workers were selected using a probability sampling methodology and a web-based google form for data collection. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 25 software and presented as frequency tables, charts and standard deviation. Association between categorical variab...
To facilitate improvements in health service delivery, patients’ satisfaction with gynecological services was assessed at a tertiary hospital. Five hundred gynecological care-seekers who presented for outpatient consultation, inpatient care, or theatre procedures had face-to-face interviews using close-ended questionnaires. The assessment encompass...
Background:
Traditional Medicine refers to knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures. Women have been reported to utilize orthodox health care facilities more hence this study in an urban center.
Objective:
To determine the utilization of traditional healers, preference of hea...
Background:
Studies have demonstrated the role of sputum as a site of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARSCoV-2) transmission. However, there is limited literature on the virucidal efficacy of oral antiseptics against SARS-CoV-2 virus. This study investigated the virucidal efficacy of three oral-antiseptics compared to a placebo-c...
Background
Globally, coronavirus 2019 pandemic has led to severe illnesses, loss of lives, and social disruption in Nigeria. Ekiti State government introduced different strategies, protocols, and standard operating procedures in the control of the pandemic. This study assessed the perception of primary healthcare workers (HCWs) to the measures intr...
Background: Laboratory healthcare workers do handle a wide range of potentially dangerous materials which exposes them to numerous hazards. This study aimed to assess the practices of laboratory health care workers towards safety, infection control and the associated factors to its practices.
Case Presentation: A cross-sectional study was conducte...
Background:
Poor medication adherence in HIV treatment is a public health problem as it leads to increased morbidity and mortality, as well as the development of drug resistance. There is limited information on the determinants of adherence among people living with HIV/AIDS especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed at assessing the determ...
BACKGROUND
Globally, more than 16 million adolescent girls give birth every year with additional 5 million abortions. Adolescent pregnancy has been associated with high maternal mortality rates in Nigeria. Therefore, this study was designed to assess sexual behaviour and contraceptive uptake among secondary school adolescents in an urban area in Ni...
Background: This study aimed to determine the antidiabetic treatment pattern and cost of treatment in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. Methodology: A retrospective study was conducted on cases managed at the diabetic clinic in LASUTH using case notes of patients managed in two years. The total number of case notes available...
Introduction:
inadequate utilization of maternal health services due to limited reproductive decision-making capacity could be contributory to high maternal mortality in developing countries. This study sought to assess nuances of reproductive decisions by women in a rural community of Lagos, Nigeria.
Methods:
this descriptive, cross-sectional h...
p> Background: Sickle cell disease is a genetic condition that affects millions of people globally. In view of this, the study aims at determining the financial burden of sickle cell disease among caregivers of children with sickle cell disease in Nigeria.
Methods: It was a descriptive cross sectional study and systematic sampling method was used...
Anti-retro viral therapy (ART) is a lifelong treatment and its effectiveness depends critically both on the
efficacy of the antiretroviral drugs against the virus and achieving a very high level of adherence (> 95%)
to the medications. This study evaluated the relationship between medication beliefs, locus of control
and adherence to ART among p...
Background: Robust and effective information management systems are critical for successful malaria control and elimination. This study was a follow up study to assess the practices of Lagos State public healthcare facilities with regards to malaria documentations and reporting to the local government authorities (LGAs) in Lagos Nigeria in 2009 and...
Background: The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) provides health services through accredited healthcare facilities, and studies have shown mixed perceptions about the quality of accessed services, with some enrollees commending it and several others adjudging it poor. Objective: This study was to determine patients' satisfaction with the qua...
Worldwide, sickle cell disease (SCD) poses a significant public health concern. It causes recurrent morbidity, and premature death is a distinct possibility, especially in Nigeria, which bears half the world’s burden of SCD patients. Nigeria has yet to establish a newborn screening program; consequently, most affected children are diagnosed between...
Background:
Risk behaviours including marijuana use, alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking have a significant impact on the present and future health of adolescents. There are limited studies in sub-Saharan Africa to show evidence, if it exists, of the relationship between parental monitoring practices and the prevalence of substance use among...
ABSTRACT
Background: Evaluation of patients’ satisfaction is increasingly gaining importance as one of the main tools for the assessment of the quality of healthcare delivery and its impact from the patients’ perspective.
Objective: This study assessed patient satisfaction with services accessed under the National Health Insurance Scheme at a terti...
Background:
The perception of healthcare workers (HCWs) by community members is dependent on the quality of services rendered by HCWs and contributes to utilisation. The objective of the study was to assess the perception of health workers in both public and private facilities by residents of Lagos State.
Materials and methods:
A descriptive cro...
Background: Hypertension is a chronic disease and adherence to medication has implications ineffective treatment. This study was conducted to adherence to anti-hypertensive medication and identify any association between personality traits, personal beliefs about medication and adherence to therapy among the patients attending the Medical Outpatien...
Nigeria has made remarkable progress against polio, but two wild polio virus cases were reported in August 2016; putting an end to two years without reported cases. We examined the extent of geographical disparities in childhren not vaccinated against polio and examined individual- and community-level predictors of non-vaccination in Nigeria. We ap...
Background: Despite the proven effectiveness ofinsecticide treated nets (ITNs) in controlling malaria and its widespread distribution, its level of utilization remains below expectations.
Objective: This study assessed knowledge of malaria preventive practices and use of ITNs in a periurban community in Lagos, Nigeria.
Methods: The study was a comm...
Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women in Nigeria but utilization of screening methods has remained low. This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of an educational program on the knowledge of cervical cancer and uptake of screening among rural women in Lagos State. Methods: A quasi-experimental study w...
Background: The evaluation of patient satisfaction provides an indicator of quality of care and contributes to strategies towards improvement of healthcare delivery. Objective: To assess patient satisfaction with services accessed under the National Health Insurance Scheme at a tertiary health facility in North central, Nigeria. Methodology: A cros...
Background: There have been targeted efforts to increase the availability of job aids in health facilities for the effective management of malaria by health workers. Prior to now, the effect of the interventions has not been evaluated. This study had the objective of assessing the availability of malaria treatment guidelines, SOPs and job aids in p...
Introduction:
Hypertension has been reported as the strongest modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Aims:
The aim of the study was to identify the most prescribed antihypertensive drugs, its patterns, comorbidities, cost of medications, and laboratory investigations.
Settings and design:
This study was a cross-sect...
The capacity of public health facilities to effectively manage malaria in endemic zones is often limited by inadequate facilities, equipment and skills. This study was a follow up study to assess the capacity of public health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria to diagnose and treat malaria following various interventions to improve capacity.
Methodolog...
Background: Primary Health Care is the usual entry point into the health system and has the potential to touch the lives of most
people. However one of the reasons for poor uptake of health services at primary health care facilities in Nigeria is long waiting time.
This study was carried out to assess client waiting time and attitude towards servic...
Globally, the youths constitute a major segment of most societies particularly in developing countries. This study was undertaken to assess the perception and practices related to youth friendly health services (YFHS) by in-school adolescents in a rural community of Lagos, Nigeria.
A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted on 400 proportio...
Background: School Health Programmes can reduce the prevalence of health risk behaviors among young people and have a positive effect on academic performance. This study set out to assess the knowledge and the practice of school health programme among school administrators in private secondary schools in Ikeja Local Government Area (L.G.A) of Lagos...
Malaria prevention in pregnancy among traditional birth attendants in rural Lagos, Nigeria
A Adeniran, OO Goodman, FA Olatona, EO Oluwole
Abstract
Background: Malaria accounts for approximately 1 million deaths annually and about 300,000 deaths in Nigeria alone. Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to adverse consequences of malaria. The N...
Background: Non-adherence to drug therapy is an important cause of treatment failure among patients with chronic conditions like diabetes. Previous researches have presented associations among personality traits, medication beliefs and adherence to long-term medication treatment in individuals with different chronic diseases. However, there is limi...
With the current population of Nigeria and the limited number of trained health care providers, PMVs are inevitable and highly needed especially in the rural areas for the supply of drugs in treating minor illnesses. Thus, pharmacovigilance (PVG) activity in Nigeria cannot exclude the roles of PMVs; therefore, this study was aimed to determine the...