Background: Decades after several concerted efforts were made to contain the scourge, maternal deaths continue to have a devastating effect in many developing countries. Strengthening the strategies to reduce these calamitous losses is necessary to achieve a palpable decline in t...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/35545
Background: Evaluation of effectiveness of teaching can be obtained through feedback from students, self or peers. This study determined the perspectives of teachers in a College of Medicine in Nigeria on the qualities of an effective teacher. Methods: A cross sectional descripti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2017/32207
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women during pregnancy is a special and peculiar sub-class of violence against women. Anecdotal evidence suggest that such practices are still prevalent in Nigeria. Efforts to eliminate this scourge against women would certainly...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36725
Background: Wound complications following caesarean delivery are significant causes of morbidity and financial strain especially in low resource countries. Use of appropriate technique in skin closure could reduce the emotional burden of an already difficult period of adjustment....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29450
Background: Out-patient clinics are very important in medical students’ education. Aim: This study was undertaken to determine the attitudes of patients to the participation of medical students in their consultation in the gynaecology clinic at the University of Nigeria teaching...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25623
Background: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB) in pregnancy is associated with potential urinary and obstetric complications. The diagnosis and management of ASB in expectant mothers is in keeping with safe motherhood initiative. Aim: To determine the prevalence and pattern of ASB am...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21878
Background: The female condom remains the only female-initiated means of preventing both pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Unfortunately uptake in the West and in some developing countries has been low thus precluding the realization of the dual benefi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17869
Background: Preventing transmission of HIV from mother to child after birth is one of the greatest challenges in HIV prevention. Aim: To evaluate the infant feeding practices among HIV-positive mothers and the factors that influenced their decisions at the University of Nigeria T...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16980
Background: Infertility is a phenomenon which influences all lifestyle aspects of a couple and has cultural, social, legal and especially psychological consequences. Depression is a common consequence of infertility and its impact can be devastating to the infertile persons and t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16302
Background: Postnatal care is an important preventative health programme capable of reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality but had been underutilized in developing countries. Proper utilization has been associated with improved patient satisfaction. Objective: The a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29590
Background: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare obstetric emergency with unclear aetiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management. The true incidence is unclear and diagnosed largely by exclusion. It can neither be predicted nor prevented and its management is fraught wit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17340
Background: The quest for ideal treatment and understanding of fibroid biology has resulted in further studies in pharmacological, radiological and surgical options with the goals of being safe, less invasive, cost-effective and enhancing reproductive potentials. However, surgery...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15880
Background: Pelvimetry is a poor predictor of obstetric outcome. The predictive value of clinical pelvimetry remains limited except in extreme pelvic contracture or an excessively large fetus. Objective: To determine the attitudes of primigravidae to routine clinical pelvimetry....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18430