Browsing by Author "Aderibigbe, Sunday"

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    Determinants of contraceptive usage among female apprentices in Ilorin, Nigeria
    (Sudan Medical Association, 2018-08) Olarinoye, Adebunmi; Adesina, Kikelomo; Olarinoye, John; Adeniran, Abiodun; Aderibigbe, Sunday; Ezeoke, Grace
    Abstract Background: Maternal mortality is high in most developing countries and a significant number are from complications arising from induced unsafe abortion. The single, young and sexually active women are often more vulnerable, majority of the female apprentices fall within this group. Use of contraceptive among female apprentices in Ilorin, Nigeria was studied in this article. Methods: Five hundred and sixteen respondents participated in this survey through interview administered questionnaires. Results: The mean age of respondents was 22.34 ± 6.8years; of menarche was 13.28 ± 2.12 years and of first sexual exposure was 18.45 ± 3.9 years. The most common vocation was apprentice medicine/chemist vendor 124 (24%), followed by tailoring 114 (22%), 304 (59%) were single, 112 (21.7%) were married while 148 (28.7%) had primary education. Among the respondents, 79.5% and 64% were aware of condoms and combined oral contraceptive pills respectively. Only 48.3% had used at least one contraceptive method in the past. Most commonly used contraceptive was the male condom (42.9%). The least used was the combined pill (11.8%). Use of emergency pills was related to educational level (p = 0.027), used only by apprentices with formal education. Contraception as a contradiction to religious beliefs was the commonest reason for non-use followed by fear of future infertility as a complication of contraception. Conclusion: Religious beliefs and fear of complications were the major hindrances to contraceptive uptake despite the high level of awareness. Although the widespread use of male condom, which protects against sexually transmitted diseases, in this high risk group is acceptable and encouraging, attempts should still be focused on improving contraception uptake among apprentices.
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    Pregnancy outcome of the Obese in Ilorin
    (International Society for Obstetric Medicine & The Royal Society of Medicine U.K., 2011) Adesina, Kikelomo; Aderibigbe, Sunday; Fawole, Adegboyega; Ijaiya, Munir'deen; Olarinoye, Adebunmi
    Background: Obesity is a nutritional disorder that is fast becoming a public health issue in the developing world. It is associated with increased incidence of maternal complications and adverse perinatal outcome. Methods and results: This is a case-control study of obesity in pregnancy carried out in the maternity wing of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. The subjects and controls were 156 obese and 80 non-obese women booked at this hospital for antenatal care. The controls were matched for age and parity. Obesity occurred more commonly among the well educated (P ¼ 0.00) and those in social classes I and II (P ¼ 0.00). The occurrence of other medical conditions was not significantly different. The obese women also had more caesarean sections (P ¼ 0.00), more assisted vaginal deliveries (P ¼ 0.00) and fewer spontaneous vaginal deliveries (P ¼ 0.00) than the non-obese parturients. The mean birth weight of infants of the obese mothers was 4.06+0.13 kg (mean+SD) while the mean for the controls was 3.36+ 0.49 kg. The difference was statistically significant (P ¼ 0.000). Also, the obese parturients had more macrosomic babies (defined as birth weight .4.2 kg) than the non-obese (P ¼ 0.00). The risks of perinatal asphyxia, birth trauma, neonatal admission and low birth weight were not increased among obese women in this study. Conclusion: This study suggests that in our community, obesity occurs more commonly among women of high socioeconomic status and is a risk factor for maternal and fetal complications.
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    Sociodemographic characteristics and pregnancy outcome of referred and booked parturients in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital.
    (Medical Journal of Zambia, 2018) Olarinoye, Adebunmi; Adesina, Kikelomo; Aderibigbe, Sunday; Akande, Tanimola; Fawole, Adegboyega