Background: Cervical cancer, primarily caused by persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV), continues to pose a substantial global health challenge. The disease burden is disproportionately elevated in sub-Saharan Africa, where inadequate access to preventive...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i31367
Ifeoma Nwadiuto, Adetomi Bademosi, Nduye Christie Tobin Briggs, Gbara Precious Karakpoa & Thankgod Efeelo Peaceful·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2026
Background: Sleep disturbances represent a critical yet under-addressed public health challenge among medical students globally, with particular significance in resource-constrained settings like Nigeria. These disturbances compromise cognitive function, academic performance, men...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i21357
Diarrhea is defecation with excrete, liquid, or semi-liquid (semi-solid); the water content of stools is more than normal, more than 200 g or 200 ml / 24 hours. Another definition using frequency criteria, the definition is watery stools more than three times per day. Acute diarr...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2023/v21i10882
Atia Sharmin Bonna, A. S. M. Sarwar, Sarker Md. Nasrullah, Khandaker Sabit Bin Razzak, Sharmina Rahman Chowdhury, Sabrina Rahman & Shahed Rafi Pavel·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2022
Exam anxiety can be term as a mental disorder found in most students. It is a kind of fear and scaredness for which students choose to avoid the feared situations such as exams. A little bit of anxiety is common before and during the examination. Still, it can negatively impact t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i1130523
Background: Students are usually exposed to all kinds of injury in schools and with inadequate health care services in most schools; administering first aid is important in such emergency situations. Hence, this study was conducted to assess the awareness, knowledge and behaviora...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i930490
Background: The learning environment has a significant impact on the academic success and learning process of students. Implementing a high-quality, student-centered curriculum demands an assessment of the educational environment. The focus of this study was to compare the learni...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i1030385
Background: Depression and anxiety are mental health disorders which both result in high negative affect and are two of the most common mental health disorders globally. Stress is one factor implicated in the cause and aggravation of such mental disorders. Medicine is among some...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i430321
Background: Medical humanities is using subjects traditionally known as the humanities for specific purposes in education in medicine. A two-day medical humanities workshop was facilitated at JSS medical college, Mysuru, India on 9th and 10th March 2020. Objectives: The authors o...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i1130267
Background: Learning preference is the effective and efficient modality or manner in which a learner has a natural preference to perceive process, store and recall new information. Learning style is the composite of cognitive, affective and physiological characteristics that indi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230183
Aim: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of drug and alcohol use among medical students in a private University based in Abuja, Nigeria. Study Design: A descriptive cross-sectional survey. Place and Duration of Study: College of Health Sciences (CHS), Nile Univ...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2019/v16i130132
Background: A good proportion of medical students and house officers will consider specialization in different aspects of medicine following graduation. However, there are still individuals who at this stage are undecided both in the question of specialization as well as on what...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2019/v15i430129
Aims: Objectives are to find out the prevalence of academic related stress in first-year medical students of Government Medical College, Kollam and to find out the relation if any, between stress and academic performance. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/42673