Adegboyega Ogunwale
Biographic Data
| ID | 6815211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adegboyega Ogunwale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adegboyega |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogunwale |
| SIGNATURE | OGUNWALE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0660-9103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Geopsychiatry, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and geopolitical challenges for global mental health
SDGs; United Nations; sustainable development; geopsychiatry; global mental health
Trauma and mental disorder
Psychiatry has often had an uneasy relationship with popular culture as depictions of mental health may be stigmatising and inaccurate. A recent critically acclaimed series, Top Boy, set in a crime-filled fictional housing estate in the London Borough of Hackney offers an informed and fairly balanced insight into broad mental health-related themes including racial trauma embodied in social inequities, the syndemic of mental disorder, substance mi…
Indigenous mental healthcare and human rights abuses in Nigeria
Background: Indigenous mental healthcare using traditional non-western methods termed "unorthodox approaches" has been observed in Nigeria historically. This has been largely due to a cultural preference for spiritual or mystical rather than biomedical formulations of mental disorder. Yet, there have been recent concerns about human rights abuses within such treatment settings as well as their tendency to perpetuate stigmatization. Aim: The aim o…
The tip of the iceberg? Climate change, detention settings and mental health
Disability among patients with schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia has been described as the most disabling mental disorder, and patients with schizophrenia have been said to be disabled mostly in self-care, occupation, sexual relation and social relationship domains. Previous authors have studied disability among this study population. However, the limitations of these previous works include non-report of the prevalence rates of disability, report on disability limited to only a partic…
Internalized stigma in schizophrenia
Self-stigma is a major problem in schizophrenia, with far reaching consequences on treatment and overall outcome, but scarcely examined. In this study we investigated the prevalence and predictors of internalized stigma in schizophrenia in an outpatient population. We recruited 370 adult outpatients with DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia. All participants were interviewed with a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, the 18-item Brief Psych…
Self-stigma, quality of life and schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Stigma is a major obstacle to the treatment and recovery of people with mental illness. In Nigeria, there is a dearth of information on internalization of stigma and its effect on treatment outcome measures such as quality of life. AIM AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to assess self-stigma among patients with schizophrenia attending a psychiatric hospital outpatient clinic, and the relationship of self-stigma to the socio-demo…
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Self-stigma, quality of life and schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Stigma is a major obstacle to the treatment and recovery of people with mental illness. In Nigeria, there is a dearth of information on internalization of stigma and its effect on treatment outcome measures such as quality of life. AIM AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to assess self-stigma among patients with schizophrenia attending a psychiatric hospital outpatient clinic, and the relationship of self-stigma to the socio-demo…
Internalized stigma in schizophrenia
Self-stigma is a major problem in schizophrenia, with far reaching consequences on treatment and overall outcome, but scarcely examined. In this study we investigated the prevalence and predictors of internalized stigma in schizophrenia in an outpatient population. We recruited 370 adult outpatients with DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia. All participants were interviewed with a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, the 18-item Brief Psych…
Disability among patients with schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia has been described as the most disabling mental disorder, and patients with schizophrenia have been said to be disabled mostly in self-care, occupation, sexual relation and social relationship domains. Previous authors have studied disability among this study population. However, the limitations of these previous works include non-report of the prevalence rates of disability, report on disability limited to only a partic…
The tip of the iceberg? Climate change, detention settings and mental health
Indigenous mental healthcare and human rights abuses in Nigeria
Background: Indigenous mental healthcare using traditional non-western methods termed "unorthodox approaches" has been observed in Nigeria historically. This has been largely due to a cultural preference for spiritual or mystical rather than biomedical formulations of mental disorder. Yet, there have been recent concerns about human rights abuses within such treatment settings as well as their tendency to perpetuate stigmatization. Aim: The aim o…
Geopsychiatry, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and geopolitical challenges for global mental health
SDGs; United Nations; sustainable development; geopsychiatry; global mental health
Trauma and mental disorder
Psychiatry has often had an uneasy relationship with popular culture as depictions of mental health may be stigmatising and inaccurate. A recent critically acclaimed series, Top Boy, set in a crime-filled fictional housing estate in the London Borough of Hackney offers an informed and fairly balanced insight into broad mental health-related themes including racial trauma embodied in social inequities, the syndemic of mental disorder, substance mi…
Psychiatry (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Psychosis (3 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (3 works) · Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (2 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (2 works)