Peter Bai James

Dados Biográficos

ID243766
NOMEPeter Bai James
PRENOMESPeter Bai
SOBRENOMEJames
ASSINATURAJAMES P B
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Sierra Leone
ORCID0000-0002-6373-5704
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR20
TOTAL COMO EDITOR17
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1967
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Understanding factors that impact patient access and engagement with biomedical and traditional care for hip fractures in The Gambia

    Open AccessAwa Touray, Rachael Gooberman‐hill et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Across Africa, the average age of the population is increasing, leading to a rise in health challenges such as hip fractures. Surgical fixation is the standard of care for hip fracture in older adults. In The Gambia, traditional bone setters (TBS) remain an important source of fracture care, though concerns exist regarding complications. In resource-constrained settings, system constraints may also result in post-operative complications. Currentl…

  • Correlates of cervical cancer awareness among women aged 30–49 in five sub-Saharan African nations

    Open AccessDaniel J Olivieri, McKenna C Eastment et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Prior studies associate high cervical cancer awareness with reductions in cervical cancer incidence. In this study, we utilize nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS) to analyze correlates of cervical cancer awareness to inform global strategies. All DHS surveys between 2017–2023 were queried for questions o…

  • The potential role of cultural and religious healing practices in shaping community vulnerability to highly infectious diseases in western Kenya

    Open AccessNaomi Wambui Ng’ang’a, Reuben Onkoba Momanyi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Cultural and religious practices and beliefs have historically played a significant role in the management of disease outbreaks globally. This study explored how such beliefs and healing practices shape the vulnerability of communities to highly infectious diseases in three border counties in western Kenya-Homa Bay, Bungoma, and West Pokot. Using an empirical qualitative research design, we conducted 45 key informant interviews with 13 traditiona…

  • Self-management of chronic conditions including multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessSangwani Salimu, Melissa Taylor et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The increasing prevalence of multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is an urgent concern for health service delivery, yet little is known about how best to support self-management- the tasks patients and carers take to maintain physical and mental health in this context. This review synthesized qualitative evidence that describes self-management of four chronic conditions- HIV, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and hypertension, including mul…

  • Ampa/kainate receptor activation within the prelimbic cortex is necessary for incubated cocaine-craving

    Open AccessLaura L Huerta Sanchez, Melissa A Tadros et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    Together, these findings indicate a necessary role for AMPAR/kainate receptors within the PL in driving incubated cocaine-craving and suggest that AMPAR/kainate receptors located within the IL may be involved also in sucrose-craving selectively in males

  • Long-term physical and mental health outcomes of Ebola Virus Disease survivors in Kenema District, Sierra Leone

    Open AccessJenna N Bates, Abdulai Kamara et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The 2013–2016 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa was the deadliest in history, with over 28,000 cases. Numerous physical and mental health symptoms have been reported in EVD survivors, although there is limited prior research on how the health of survivors compares to the general population. We conducted a survey of EVD survivors in Kenema District, Sierra Leone and a population-based sample of community members who lived in EVD-af…

  • Impact of Covid-19 on people living with HIV and HIV care

    Open AccessDavid Ayangba Asakitogum, Jerry John Nutor et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant social changes and challenges globally, including economic slowdown and limitation of essential services. Our study explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the HIV treatment experiences and lives of people living with HIV in Ghana. Between October 2021 and January 2022, we conducted four focus group discussions with 24 people living with HIV and six in-depth interviews with healthcare providers to …

  • Cannabis use and its psychosocial correlates among school-going adolescents in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAugustus Osborne, Peter Bai James et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    In Sierra Leone, a small but non-trivial minority of students use cannabis. Ever-used amphetamines or methamphetamines, suicidal attempts, and sexual risk behaviour were the factors associated with cannabis use in Sierra Leone. The development of school-based health intervention programmes is crucial to address the risk factors associated with cannabis use among school-going adolescents

  • Impacts of Covid-19 on African Migrants' Wellbeing, and Their Coping Strategies in Urban and Regional New South Wales, Australia

    Open AccessPeter Bai James, Kathomi Gatwiri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2024Citada por: 3Referências: 48

    Aim As the COVID-19 pandemic response continues to evolve, the need to protect more vulnerable populations in society becomes more apparent. Studies are still emerging on how different population groups have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study explored the impact of COVID-19 for African migrants in New South Wales, Australia, and their coping strategies. Methods We employed inductive, exploratory qualitative interpretive research de…

  • Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine

    Open AccessPolydor Ngoy Mutombo, Ossy Muganga Julius Kasilo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Management of COVID-19 in Africa is challenging due to limited resources, including the high cost of vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and routine pharmaceuticals. These challenges, in addition to wide acceptability, have resulted in increased use of herbal medicines based on African traditional medicines (ATMs) by patients in Africa. This is in spite of the often-significant gaps in evidence regarding these traditional medicines as to their…

  • Epidemiology of multimorbidity in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAlison J Price, Modou Jobe et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    We investigated prevalence and demographic characteristics of adults living with multimorbidity (≥2 long-term conditions) in three low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, using secondary population-level data from four cohorts; Malawi (urban & rural), The Gambia (rural) and Uganda (rural). Information on; measured hypertension, diabetes and obesity was available in all cohorts; measured hypercholesterolaemia and HIV and self-reported asthma w…

  • Covid-19 stressors and mental health problems amongst women who arrived as refugees and those born in Australia

    Open AccessSusan Ree, Mohammed Mohsin et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Women from refugee background residing in high income countries are at greater mental health risk during the COVID-19 pandemic given their higher baseline prevalence of mental disorders, trauma exposures and social adversities. During the COVID-19 pandemic we drew on data from wave-4 of the WATCH cohort study, collected between October 2019 and June 2021. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis to compare the prevalence of common mental disorders…

  • Inequitable care delivery toward Covid-19 positive people of color and people with disabilities

    Open AccessDanbi Lee, Paula M Kett et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    This study aimed to explore provider observations of inequitable care delivery towards COVID-19 positive patients who are Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color (BIPOC) and/or have disabilities and to identify ways the health workforce may be contributing to and compounding inequitable care. We conducted semi-structured interviews between April and November 2021 with frontline healthcare providers from Washington, Florida, Illinois, and New…

  • Bullying victimization among in-school adolescents in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAugustus Osborne, Peter Bai James et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Adolescent bullying victimization is recognized as a public health and mental health problem in many countries. However, data on bullying victimization’s prevalence and risk factors is scarce in sub-Saharan Africa Sierra Leone. This research aimed to determine bullying victimization prevalence and its associated factors among Sierra Leonean school-going adolescents. The Sierra Leone 2017 Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS) dataset was analyz…

  • Nearly half of adults with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) did not seek clinical care

    Open AccessYasmin P Ogale, Caitlin E Kennedy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Understanding treatment-seeking behavior is critical to the treatment and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), yet current data on STI treatment seeking in low-resource settings is rare. This population-based study aimed to describe STI treatment-seeking behavior and identify factors associated with seeking treatment at a clinic among adults with STI-related symptoms in rural Uganda. The STI prevalence study (STIPS) conducted a surv…

  • Barriers to optimal Aefi surveillance and documentation in Nigeria

    Open AccessSemeeh Akinwale Omoleke, Moyosola Bamidele et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Effective spontaneous AEFI reporting is the first step to ensuring vaccine safety. Half of the global population lives in countries with weak vaccine safety monitoring systems, especially in the African, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific regions. Further, Immunisation services have been upscaled without commensurate effective AEFI surveillance systems. Hence, this study aims to comprehensively investigate the impediments to an effective …

  • Effect of emergency obstetric care and proximity to comprehensive facilities on facility-based delivery in Malawi and Haiti

    Open AccessChioma T Amadi-Mgbenka, Luisa N Borrell et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Proximity of households to comprehensive obstetric care is a key determinant for preventing maternal mortality due to obstetric emergencies. The relationship between proximity to comprehensive care and facility delivery is further complicated by the use of varied methods in measuring facility obstetric capacity–which may misrepresent the real scenario of obstetric care availability in a service environment. We investigated the joint effects of pr…

  • Inequalities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Brazilian slum populations

    Open AccessJasper J L Chan, Linh Tran-Nhu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Background Social and environmental risk factors in informal settlements and slums may contribute to increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study assesses the socioeconomic inequalities in CVD risk factors in Brazil comparing slum and non-slum populations. Methods Responses from 94,114 individuals from the 2019 Brazilian National Health Survey were analysed. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme definition of a slum was use…

  • Are socio-demographic and economic characteristics good predictors of misinformation during an epidemic

    Open AccessElisa M Maffioli, Robert Gonzalez et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    We combine data on beliefs about the origin of the 2014 Ebola outbreak with two supervised machine learning methods to predict who is more likely to be misinformed. Contrary to popular beliefs, we uncover that, socio-demographic and economic indicators play a minor role in predicting those who are misinformed: misinformed individuals are not any poorer, older, less educated, more economically distressed, more rural, or ethnically different than i…

  • Anxiety and depressive symptoms among home isolated patients with Covid-19

    Open AccessPratik Khanal, Kiran Paudel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Home isolated patients infected with COVID-19 might be at increased risk of developing mental health problems. The study aimed to identify the prevalence and factors associated with anxiety and depression among COVID-19 home isolated patients in Province One, Nepal. This was a cross-sectional study conducted between February 17, 2021, to April 9, 2021. A total of 372 home isolated patients from Province One were phone interviewed in the study. An…

  • Caregivers’ perception of risk for malaria, helminth infection and malaria-helminth co-infection among children living in urban and rural settings of Senegal

    Open AccessMuhammed O Afolabi, Ndèye Marème Sougou et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The parasites causing malaria, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis frequently co-exist in children living in low-and middle-income countries, where existing vertical control programmes for the control of these diseases are not operating at optimal levels. This gap necessitates the development and implementation of strategic interventions to achieve effective control and eventual elimination of these co-infections. Central to the su…

  • Understanding the role of traditional healers in the HIV care cascade

    Open AccessDunstan J Matungwa, Richie Hong et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Tanzania is HIV-endemic, with 5% prevalence. However, less than half of Tanzanians are aware of their HIV status, and only 75% of adult Tanzanians living with HIV are on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Informal healthcare providers, such as traditional healers, frequently serve as the first line of healthcare in Tanzania. How traditional healers interact with people living with HIV (PLWH) remains unknown. This study sought to understand gaps in HIV…

  • Optimism, Daily Stressors, and Emotional Well-Being Over Two Decades in a Cohort of Aging Men

    Lewina O Lee, Francine Grodstein et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022Referências: 4

    Findings from a sample of older men suggest that optimism may be associated with more favorable emotional well-being in later life through differences in stressor exposure rather than emotional stress response. Optimism may preserve emotional well-being among older adults by engaging emotion regulation strategies that occur relatively early in the emotion-generative process

  • Providing healthcare to Ebola survivors

    Open AccessPeter Bai James, Jon Wardle et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    Although the experiences of healthcare workers regarding caring for Ebola patients during the West African Ebola outbreak have been explored, little is known about healthcare workers' experiences in providing care to Ebola survivors. We employed a qualitative design to address this gap in the literature. Healthcare providers described the health complaints of Ebola survivors as similar to those of ordinary patients, but disproportionately frequen…

  • Prevalence of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among Ebola survivors in northern Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAbdulai Jawo Bah, Peter Bai James et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Our findings show that anxiety, depression and PTSD are common among the Ebola survivors in Bombali district, Northern Sierra Leone, and that underscores the need to diagnose and manage mental health morbidities among Ebola survivors long after their recovery from Ebola virus disease. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) need to be explored as part of overall mental healthcare package interventions