Niger J Clin Pract
-
Women may resume sexual intercourse anytime during the postpartum period with little consideration for contraceptive. ⋯ Women commonly resume sexual intercourse during postpartum period without contraceptive use. Interventions during antenatal and early postnatal periods are needed to improve early adoption of Family planning by postpartum women.
-
The healthcare delivery in Nigeria operates in a turbulent environment with professional rivalry leading to job dissatisfaction among players. This lack of cohesion, which has shown the need for appropriate leadership, has made healthcare professionals function in an environment of uncertainty, disorder, and ambiguity. ⋯ Very few of the employees had high job satisfaction and leadership styles impacts health workers' job satisfaction differently. Transformational styles were more related to health workers' job satisfaction than the transactional styles. Laissez-faire exhibited a negative relationship with job satisfaction. There is need for leadership skills on the part of the healthcare leaders; age of leader and duration of tenure needs to be further benchmarked to improve job satisfaction among the healthcare workers.
-
Varicocele is the most common correctable cause of male infertility. But, it is still controversial in patients with severe oligospermia. ⋯ Varicocele surgery before assisted reproductive techniques will be more beneficial in terms of both cost-effectiveness and pregnancy rates.
-
The steady rise in laparotomy rates, particularly resulting from gynecologic and obstetric procedures in our environment has given rise to corresponding increase in the proportions of incisional hernias (IH). Over the years, discussion on the appropriate repair technique for IH has continued, nevertheless, with advances in laparo-endoscopy and introduction of prosthetic meshes, the surgical treatment has been revolutionized. ⋯ In our locality, the trend over time shows a shift from predominantly anatomic suture-based repair to a tensionless mesh implant with far lower recurrent rates. Laparotomy incisions for obstetric and gynecologic procedures are the most common precipitating incisions.
-
The aim of this study was to test the accuracy of estimating chronological age using Nolla's method of dental age assessment in a Saudi Arabian population considering sex and age group variables. ⋯ Nolla's method is suitable for estimating chronological age in Southern Saudi children, as the mean difference between estimated dental age and chronological age was within an acceptable range.