Akin Ojagbemi

Datos Biográficos

ID223816
NOMBREAkin Ojagbemi
NOMBRESAkin
APELLIDOOjagbemi
FIRMAOJAGBEMI A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Ibadan
ORCID0000-0001-7612-8017
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Sociodemographic Factors in Older Adults’ Gait Speed Decline

    Open AccessOgochukwu Kelechi Onyeso, Chiedozie James Alumona et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2025Referencias: 3

    BackgroundGait speed is an important predictor of older adults' well-being. We estimated the influence of sociodemographic factors on the gait speed decline of community-dwelling older Nigerians.MethodsUsing the Ibadan Study of Ageing (2007, 2008, and 2009 cycles), we completed a gender disaggregate analysis of sociodemographic influences on participants' gait speed trajectory using mixed-design ANOVA and growth curve analysis.ResultsAt baseline,…

  • Access and Discontinuity of Care at an Outpatient Mental Health Service for Older People in South Western Nigeria

    Open AccessOlufisayo Elugbadebo, Akin Ojagbemi et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2021Referencias: 25

  • Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans

    Open AccessAkin Ojagbemi, Oye GurejeARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…2021Citada por: 3Referencias: 28

  • The importance of faith-based mental healthcare in African urbanized sites

    Akin Ojagbemi, Oye GurejeARTICLECurrent Opinion in Psychiatry2020

    PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review highlights what current research says about how local beliefs and norms can facilitate expansion of mental healthcare to meet the large unmet need for services in Africa. RECENT FINDINGS: In contemporary Africa, religious beliefs exert important influences on mental health as well as the way people with mental illnesses are viewed and cared for. Mental healthcare practices based on traditional and other religious be…

  • Neurological Soft Signs, Spontaneous and Treatment Emergent Extrapyramidal Syndromes in Black Africans With First Episode Schizophrenia

    Open AccessAkin Ojagbemi, Bonginkosi Chiliza et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2018

    Background: Very little is known about the relationship between spontaneous and treatment-induced motor syndromes in Africans with first episode schizophrenia. Objective: We investigated the association between spontaneous NSS and EPS, with treatment-induced EPS in a homogenous sample of Black Africans with first episode schizophrenia. Methods: We examined Xhosa (South Africa) and Yoruba (Nigeria) patients, using the Neurological Evaluation Scale…

  • The expression of neurological soft signs in two African populations with first-episode schizophrenia

    Open AccessAkin Ojagbemi, Bonginkosi Chiliza et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2018Referencias: 50

    Information about patterns of expression of neurological soft signs (NSS) in schizophrenia among individuals belonging to the same genetic ancestry may provide new insight for the understanding of the disease's genetic functions. This study aimed to investigate whether patterns of NSS expression in first episode schizophrenia are comparable in populations with dissimilar genetic ancestry. A sample of 207 patients with first episode schizophrenia …

  • Living Conditions, Low Socioeconomic Position, and Mortality in the Ibadan Study of Aging

    Akin Ojagbemi, Toyin Bello et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    In this sample of older persons living in an economically disadvantaged context, we found persistent socioeconomic differentials in mortality estimated, conservatively, over 5 years