All Outputs (10)

Mapping the evidence on factors related to postpartum contraception among sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee women in the United States of America: A scoping review protocol (2024)
Journal Article
Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Badru, M. A., Osborne, A., Degge, H. M., & Yaya, S. (2024). Mapping the evidence on factors related to postpartum contraception among sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee women in the United States of America: A scoping review protocol. PLoS ONE, 19(5), Article e0304222. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304222

Background

Postpartum contraception is essential to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care because it encourages healthy spacing between births, helps women avoid unwanted pregnancies, and lessens the risks of health problems for mothers and ba... Read More about Mapping the evidence on factors related to postpartum contraception among sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee women in the United States of America: A scoping review protocol.

Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria: A case for rehabilitation (2023)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Laurenson, M., Hayter, M., Behera, D., & Behera, M. R. (2023). Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria: A case for rehabilitation. Health Care for Women International, https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2023.2283424

Obstetric fistula remains one of the neglected forms of chronic maternal morbidity that occurs mainly in low- and middle-income countries. We explored the rehabilitation and reintegration experiences of 15 fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria.... Read More about Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria: A case for rehabilitation.

Knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among mothers in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Sichalwe, M. M., Ranjan Behera, M., Behera, D., Kumar Dehury, R., & Degge, H. (2023). Knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among mothers in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 24, Article 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2023.101430

Introduction
This study examines mothers' complementary feeding (CF) knowledge and practices for children aged 6–24 months, highlighting links to adverse health outcomes and childhood malnutrition from both delayed and early CF initiation (before si... Read More about Knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among mothers in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study.

Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria (2023)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Laurenson, M., W. Dumbili, E., Saxby, H., & Hayter, M. (2024). Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria. Sociology of Health & Illness, 46(3), 437-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13715

Obstetric fistula is a life transforming event resulting in embodied biographical disruption. Survivors suffer myriad long-term physical and emotional consequences. This paper is an account of a narrative inquiry, conducted with 15 fistula survivors... Read More about Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria.

Assessing the Contraceptive Attitudes of US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Women Living in the USA: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study (2023)
Journal Article
Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Brunner Huber, L. R., Degge, H. M., Yada, F. N., & Yusuf, K. K. (2024). Assessing the Contraceptive Attitudes of US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Women Living in the USA: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 11(2), 874-884. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01569-7

Background
Racially and ethnically marginalized US women experience unintended pregnancy at twice the rate of White women. Understanding contraceptive attitudes can help identify women at increased risk of contraceptive non-use and unintended pregna... Read More about Assessing the Contraceptive Attitudes of US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Women Living in the USA: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.

Adolescent pregnancy outcomes in Jos, North Central Nigeria: The roles of disclosure and social support systems (2022)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Ataguba Achema, T., Ubanyi, T. O., & Yada, F. N. (2023). Adolescent pregnancy outcomes in Jos, North Central Nigeria: The roles of disclosure and social support systems. Global Public Health, 18(1), Article 2129724. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2129724

Adolescent pregnancy is mostly unintended and an indicator of unmet sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs. In most African cultures, sociocultural and religious expectations of chastity make unintended adolescent pregnancy a traumatic experience... Read More about Adolescent pregnancy outcomes in Jos, North Central Nigeria: The roles of disclosure and social support systems.

“It's like being involved in a car crash”: teen pregnancy narratives of adolescents and young adults in Jos, Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article
Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Degge, H., Ubanyi, T. O., Achema, T. A., & Yaya, S. (2022). “It's like being involved in a car crash”: teen pregnancy narratives of adolescents and young adults in Jos, Nigeria. International Health, 14(6), 562-571. https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihab069

Background
Adolescent pregnancy has serious public health implications, with far-reaching outcomes extending past the mother and child and affecting society. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of adolescent pregnancy in Jo... Read More about “It's like being involved in a car crash”: teen pregnancy narratives of adolescents and young adults in Jos, Nigeria.

Enhancement motivations for using prescription drugs among young adults in Nigeria (2020)
Journal Article
Dumbili, E. W., Gardner, J., Degge, H. M., & Hanewinkel, R. (2021). Enhancement motivations for using prescription drugs among young adults in Nigeria. International Journal of Drug Policy, 95, Article 102995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102995

Background
The desire for enhancement is a common motive for non-medical use of prescription drugs in Western countries. Little is known about the factors that motivate use in non-Western contexts.

Methods
The study explores access to prescript... Read More about Enhancement motivations for using prescription drugs among young adults in Nigeria.

Insights from birthing experiences of fistula survivors in North‐central Nigeria: Interplay of structural violence (2020)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Laurenson, M., Dumbili, E. W., & Hayter, M. (2020). Insights from birthing experiences of fistula survivors in North‐central Nigeria: Interplay of structural violence. Nursing Inquiry, 27(4), Article e12377. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12377

Obstetric Fistula is an abnormal opening between the vagina and rectum resulting from prolonged and obstructed labour. Studies indicate that delays in accessing maternal care and home birth contribute to the development of fistula. Survivors are usua... Read More about Insights from birthing experiences of fistula survivors in North‐central Nigeria: Interplay of structural violence.

Reflections on Identity: Narratives of Obstetric Fistula Survivors in North Central Nigeria (2019)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Laurenson, M., Dumbili, E. W., & Hayter, M. (2020). Reflections on Identity: Narratives of Obstetric Fistula Survivors in North Central Nigeria. Qualitative Health Research, 30(3), 366-379. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732319877855

Obstetric fistula is a condition that affects women and can lead to identity changes because of uncontrolled urinary and/or fecal incontinence symptom experiences. These symptoms along with different emerging identities lead to family and community d... Read More about Reflections on Identity: Narratives of Obstetric Fistula Survivors in North Central Nigeria.