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Item Awareness of Health Seeking Behaviour of Postpartum Mental Illness Among Pregnant Women Attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria Antenatal Clinic(Department of Health promotion and Environmental Health Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, 2016) Olubiyi, S.K; Issa, B.A.; Laitan, O.L.; Onasoga, O.A.; Abubakar, I.; Ibrahim, HMental health problems have adverse effects on a woman’s obstetrical outcome. Hence, the aim of the study was to assess the awareness of health seeking behaviour of postpartum mental illness among pregnant women attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria antenatal clinic. A research design of cross sectional descriptive study was used with a population of two hundred and forty (240) consecutive pregnant women receiving antenatal care in ABUTH, Zaria. A structured, self administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used with SPSS version 16 to analyze the data generated at 5% level of significance. Majority of the women, 142(59.2%), had good awareness of postpartum mental illness, 184(76.7%) of the respondents had a poor health seeking behavior towards the disorder. There was significant relationship found between awareness of postpartum mental illness and health seeking behavior for the disorder. Government at all levels of health care should scale up public awareness on postpartum mental illness with improved health education on mental healthcare centers. Also, the establishment of mental health facilities in areas strategically close to the vast majority of the population they are meant to serve will assist in controlling the menace of postpartum mental illness.Item Family dysfunction among depressed HIV/AIDS patients on HAART, in a secondary health institution, in North Central Nigeria(Elsevier Urban & Partner, 2014-02) Shittu, R.O.; Issa, B.A.; Olanrewaju, G.T.; Mahmoud, A.O.; Odeigah, L.O.; Sule, A.G.Objective: Family and caregiver distress can impair optimal care and support of the patients, particularly those suffering from stigmatizing diseases requiring life-long treatment such as HIV/AIDS. This study aimed at determining the relationship between family dysfunction and depression among HIV/AIDS patients.Methods: This was a hospital based, cross sectional, descriptive study, of 300 adult HIV/AIDS patients attending the HIV clinic. Depression was assessed using the PHQ-9 scale. A family APGAR questionnaire was then used to determine, the prevalence of self-reported family dysfunction, among the depressed patients.Results: The prevalence of depression among the HIV/AID patient was 56.7% with the following level of depression viz., minimal 109 (64%), mild 44 (25.9%), moderate 10 (5.9%), moderately severe 3 (1.8%), and4 (2.4%), severely depressed. Moreover, there was severe family dysfunction in 75 (44.1%) and moderate dysfunction in 48 (28.2%) of the respondents. Only 47 (27.6%) had highly functional family.Conclusion: Depression is very prevalent among HIV/AID patient. They have low family APGAR score,because family dysfunction is a common problem among them. There was a significant association between depression and family dysfunction. This may partly be responsible for non-disclosure of their HIV/AID status to their family members.