Adebayo AdejumoHealth psychology and research ethics
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Research & publications

89 works across health psychology, psychological interventions and research ethics, from the BMJ to Current Psychology.

Research focus

His publications are organised around three themes. Together they make the case that psychology and ethics belong at the centre of health care, not its margins.

Psychological factors in health and illness

How psychological and social factors shape wellbeing in resource-limited settings, especially Nigeria, and why culture matters when defining wellness or illness.

  • Surgical patients and lower-limb amputees
  • Pregnant career women and infertility
  • Youth with disabilities and HIV orphans
  • People exposed to Lassa fever

Psychological interventions in clinical care

Quasi-experimental studies testing therapies that clinicians can use, several of which have since been adopted in practice.

  • Rational emotive therapy for peri-operative anxiety
  • Assertiveness training to reduce sexual risk
  • Progressive goal attainment for pain catastrophising

Ethics in health care and research

Practical guidance for researchers and clinicians working to national and global ethical standards.

  • Informed consent in multinational research
  • Research ethics regulation and committees
  • Clinical ethics, logotherapy and genomics

Projects in progress

  • 2022 to 2027

    Scaling Up Research Ethics and Research Integrity (SURER)

    Co-Principal Investigator. Implementing MSc and PhD Bioethics at the University of Ibadan. NIH / Fogarty International Center, grant R25TW012213, awarded to the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

  • 2015 to date

    Ethical Issues in Genomic Research in Three African Countries

    Co-Investigator.

Completed studies

  • 2017 to 2018

    Spiritual help-seeking among women with secondary infertility in Ibadan

  • 2015 to 2017

    Health expectation and health anxiety among post-salpingectomy patients

  • 2014 to 2016

    Catastrophising, pain and disability in non-specific low back pain

    Two hospitals in South-Western Nigeria.

Publications

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    Theses and dissertations

    His own research theses
    • PhD, 2004. Influence of psychosocial factors and the effectiveness of behavioural techniques among adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria.
    • MSc, 1999. An assessment of pre- and post-operative anxiety and the influence of behavioural psychotherapy among surgical patients.
    Doctoral theses supervised (7)
    1. Selected psychosocial predictors of treatment adherence among individuals with chronic mechanical low back pain in University College Hospital, Ibadan
    2. Effects of resilience, religious coping strategy, perceived social support and the efficacy of rational emotive behavioural therapy on the mental health of diabetic patients
    3. Therapist-patient relationship and knowledge of psychotherapy as predictors of mental health patients' satisfaction with psychotherapy, and the mediatory role of perceived therapy environment
    4. Role of socio-psychological capital in attitude towards entrepreneurship and the mediatory role of innovativeness among tertiary institutions in South West Nigeria
    5. Psychological and socio-demographic determinants and efficacy of internet-based acceptance commitment therapy on marital conflict among couples in Eti-Osa LGA, Lagos
    6. Psycho-contextual factors predicting substance use behaviour and the efficacy of bi-modal intervention among in-school adolescents in Ibadan
    7. Influence of psycho-demographic factors and efficacy of motivational interviewing on relapse avoidance among recovering drug-dependent adolescents, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos
    Master's dissertations and projects supervised (19)
    1. Psycho-demographic factors and burden of care among caregivers of oncology patients, UCH Ibadan
    2. Psycho-demographic factors and psychological wellbeing of lower-limb amputees
    3. Predictors of fear of crime among foreign nationals in Lagos
    4. Psychosocial predictors of attitude to organ donation among health workers and the public in South-Western Nigeria
    5. Predictors of fear of violent crime among bank users in Nigeria
    6. Factors predicting general health status among retirees in Ibadan and Lagos
    7. Psychological predictors of attitude and practice of HIV VCT among HIV/AIDS NGO workers
    8. Accountability for reasonableness in Ekiti State government resource allocation
    9. Contextual and situational predictors of eating behaviour among sedentary and blue-collar workers
    10. Consumer expectation, service quality and consumer satisfaction in two Nigerian insurance companies
    11. Predictors of coping with imprisonment among inmates of prisons in Lagos
    12. Personality and perceived police effectiveness as predictors of fear of armed robbery
    13. Predictors of life satisfaction among retirees in two Nigerian cities
    14. Predictors of HIV/AIDS risky sexual behaviour among long-distance truck drivers at the Badagry-Seme border
    15. Perception of and attitude toward corruption among local government staff in Osun State
    16. Health workers' perceived accountability for reasonableness in tertiary care in Oyo State
    17. Job satisfaction, turnover intention and organisational commitment among nurses in Ibadan
    18. Self-efficacy, commitment and personality as predictors of attitude to organisational risk among NDLEA and EFCC staff
    19. Recruiting sources and self-efficacy as predictors of job performance among bank workers