Background: Fever is a common complain from patients globally. Self medication for acute febrile illness is also a
common practice but often with severe consequences. The family influences the health of the individuals ...
Dankyau, Musa; DANKYAU, Musa; DANKYAU, Musa(Journal of Unexplored Medical Data, 2017-02-13)
Aim: The study aimed to determine the relationship between family functioning and low
back pain (LBP) in nurses in a tertiary hospital in North Central Nigeria. Methods: A
cross-sectional study using structured questionnaires ...
Ofoli, Joshua; Dankyau, Musa; Sule, Joshua; Lass, David(Nigerian Journal of Family Practice, 2017)
Background: The study aims to determine the correlation between family/social support and adherence to treatment in hypertensive
patients.
Methods: This is a cross sectional study. Patients who met the inclusion criteria ...
Azonobo, Alexander; Dankyau, Musa(Nigerian Journal of Family Practice, 2017)
Background: Fever is a symptom of many diseases irrespective of age, sex, etc. Self medication for acute febrile illness is increasing
in scope and content globally, often with severe consequences. Knowledge of the pattern ...
Aims: Overweight and obesity are leading causes of preventable deaths globally and healthcare
workers should educate patients and the public about the danger of obesity. This is enhanced if
they have appropriate perception ...
Dankyau, Musa; Goni, Maria; Ibbi, Ishaku(Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, 2017-09-21)
Aims: Supervisory managers are key to ensuring that hospitals are effective, and they also
contribute to employee satisfaction in the workplace. There is inadequate knowledge regarding
their competences, skills and skill ...
Odekunle, Raphael; Dankyau, Musa; Ogah, S(Nigerian Journal of Family Practice, 2018)
Background: Circumcision is the commonest surgical procedure performed in male neonates, usually without anaesthesia. Recent
research had shown that new-borns have the anatomical and functional components required for ...
Gyang, Mark; Danjuma, Salihu; Gyang, Badung; Sule, Halima; Dankyau, Musa(Highland Medical Research Journal, 2018)
Background: Hypertension is a major risk factor for
cardiovascular disease, yet many health care workers rarely
check their blood pressure. The detection of hypertension
among health care workers is key to prevention ...
DANKYAU, Musa(International Journal of Nursing and Health Science, 2018-09-01)
The study aimed to determine the factors that contribute to low back pain and the coping strategies used by nurses with low
back pain in a tertiary hospital in North Central Nigeria. A hospital-based, cross-sectional study ...
DANKYAU, Musa(Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2020-09-18)
Background: Decentralization, as seen in community antiretroviral group (CAG), has resulted in a significant decline in deaths from
AIDS‑related causes with projected further benefits in middle‑ and low‑income countries, ...
Odekunle, Raphael; Dankyau, Musa(Nigerian Frontline Medicine Journal, 2018)
Background: Routine immunization injections are the most common painful procedure of childhood, for healthy infants beyond the
neonatal period. This is frequently performed without analgesia, probably because of the belief ...
Yakubu, Kenneth; Dankyau, Musa; Lodenyo, Maxwell(Annals of African Medicine Society, 2019)
Abstract
Aim:
This study aimed at assessing and comparing perceived leadership competencies of doctors occupying managerialpositions in a public and various private hospitals in Jos metropolis of Plateau state, ...
Adedigba, Segun; Dankyau, Musa(International Journal of Medical and Surgical Sciences, 2019-02-28)
Abstract: Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) poses a global health challenge
and its prevalence is rapidly increasing particularly in developing countries.
Adherence to medication is important to prevent or delay ...
Staff retention is closely related to employee satisfaction which in turn is intertwined with salaries and benefits. Secondary health care facilities in low resource settings are finding it difficult to retain their staff. ...
Chima, G A(The Internet Journal of Family Practice, 2016)
Objective: Work and family are the most central domains in an individual’s life. Because work and family are closely interconnected, linkages between work and family affect organizational performance and family functioning, ...
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an endemic infection in Nigeria. Health
care workers (HCWs) are at risk of occupational exposures to HBV-infected blood and body
fluids.
Objective: To determine the ...
Chima, G,A.A(Nigerian Journal of Family Practice, 2021)
Background: In the absence of viral load tests as monitoring tool for people living with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral therapy, CD4 cell
count and clinical assessment were depended upon as a monitoring tool. Our clinically ...
Chima, G,A.A(Nigerian Journal of Family Practice, 2021)
Health care delivery systems are desperately in need of quality improvement and cost efficiency despite increasing rates of chronic
diseases, co – morbidities, overwhelming workload etc. globally.
To navigate through ...
Chima, G,AA(African Journal of Laboratory Science, 2022-10-18)
Background: Previous studies in Nigeria have reported the presence of hepatitis B virus
(HBV) genotype E and the availability of immune escape mutants. There is a paucity of data
on chronic patients on long-term antiviral ...
Chima, G,A.A(Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,, 2017-07-12)
Combined vesico-vaginal and vesico-cutaneous fistulae are exceptionally rare.
We present a young woman who had combined vesico-vaginal fistula and
vesico-cutaneous fistula following prolonged obstructed labour and ...