Name: Adeyinka O. ADEFOLARIN Official Email Address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Email Address 1: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Email Address 2: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Brief Biography: Adeyinka Adefolarin is lecturer and researcher at the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, University of Ibadan She had her initial academic training in Human Nutrition, Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health degree in Health Promotion and Education form the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 2012, she was awarded the prestigious Doctoral Fellowship of the Consortium for Advanced Research and Training in Africa (CARTA). This fellowship provided her with world class training in research. She was an Honourary Research Associate (Visiting postdoc academic) at University of Warwick Medical School in 2025. She taught a global mental health promotion course in the global health module. She also undertook her CARTA postdoc fellowship. (stress management interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA): An umbrella review at the University of Warwick. She has more than eighteen years’ experience in professional work, teaching, and research work. She was a program Officer for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, President Emergency Program For AIDS Relief, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan for nine years. She worked as a mental health social worker and social psychiatry tutor in the Department of psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan for nine years. She started her research work during her PhD. She desires to find answers to questions she has had in her professional experience. Her PhD research focused on health education components of maternal childcare. She found from situation analysis that the mental health component of the antenatal health education was missing, and she fixed this problem. She explored the local perception of maternal depression to design health educational curriculum and maternal depression educational materials that could influence the health belief of maternal child health users and significant others. She used the developed material to train Primary Healthcare workers to provide explicit maternal mental health inclusive health education. She gained the skill in need assessment, training methods, cross cultural consideration in research, behaviour change communication, designing of communication materials, content validation, health service research, implementation research, community research, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method research. Since the completion of her PhD, she progressively answers more questions in research as she secured a research active environment by obtaining a lecturer position in the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, University of Ibadan. There she teaches core health promotion courses. She continues her research work in collaboration with other researchers, she supervises master and PhD students, and she carries out administrative work. Adeyinka Adefolarin’s research interest includes health behavior, youth mental health, maternal mental health (mental health across ages), health promotion, social determinants of health, cross-cultural perspectives of health, mHealth, digital health, inequality in health, health promoting school, and training/implementation science. Her new research interests are towards stress and positive mental health research, evidence synthesis, AI and health, mathematical modeling of mental health. Dr Adeyinka Adefolarin has presented her research work at both National and International Conferences. She has publications in scholarly and peer-reviewed journals on maternal mental health, adolescent mental health, mHealth behavior change communication, cultural perspective of health, and mental health services. She is/was a co-PI in research on interventional study on stress management among Nigeria Police force, (b) CARTA re-entry grant funded project: Micronutrient as biomarker of cancer risk in textile dye applicators in Southwest Nigeria 2019 (c) CARTA re-entry grant funded project: Development and Evaluation of a Mobile Health Information and Educational Video to Promote Fathers’ Self-Efficacy for Spousal Support in Pregnancy and Childbirth 2019. Dr Sunday Ayamolowo (d) CARTA re-entry grant funded project: The impact of Nollywood movies on awareness creation about HIV and risky sexual behavior among in-school youth in Nigeria. P.I Dr Ayodele Alonge 2019 She is a member of International Union of Health Promotion and Education, Health Promotion and Education Alumni Association Ibadan College of Medicine, Association of Medical Social Workers of Nigeria, British Columbia registration board for Social Workers, Nigeria Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied professionals (NACAPAP), African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professionals (AAPAP), Oyo State Mental Health Stakeholders Forum, Nigeria (certificate in Mental Health Leadership Advocacy Program) and National Association of Nigerian Social Workers. Ongoing research Globally, stress has been found to be a significant and costly risk factor to the burden of diseases. Adolescents and young adults (AYA), 10-24 years are biologically and environmentally vulnerable to it, with their mental health highly at risk. Meanwhile, there are substantial digital and non-digital interventions that address stress among them in different settings, but what intervention is effective on the digital and non-digital platform, in the high-income countries and low and middle income countries needs to be summarized for handy information, further research, healthcare intervention and policy review. Ongoing Research collaboration: Co-Investigator 1.TETFUND- Development of stress management model for Nigeria police force Policing is a stressful occupation. Police officers are exposed to stressors that are inherent in the organization and operations of law enforcement. Similar to their counterparts around the world, many Nigeria police officers are exposed to high levels of stress, making them vulnerable to stress-related mental health conditions and other noncommunicable diseases. Despite these risks and their consequences to the health and safety of police officers and the larger society, interventions are currently not available to address this challenge in Nigeria. This pilot study aims to assess the burden of stress from a national sample of police officers and test the feasibility of an intervention for stress prevention, management, and coping mechanisms among police officers in Nigeria. This is a three-phase study: (1) a needs assessment and situational analysis using a convergent parallel, mixed-methods approach to determine the prevalence of stress and mental health burden among 1200 police officers in four randomly selected states in four geopolitical zones of the country, (2) the development of a peer-led intervention for stress prevention, management, and coping mechanism which will be tested using a cluster randomized trial among 200 police officers, and (3) the preliminary evaluation of the intervention based on knowledge about stress management and mental disorders and psychological distress and reduction in stress levels. These measures will be obtained at baseline (T0), immediate (T1), and 6-month post-intervention (T2). Feasibility will be determined based on enrollment rate, attendance, and completion of the group sessions. Multivariable linear regression models taking into account clustering effects will be used to estimate between-group differences in outcome measures. Findings from the study will inform policy review and the development of a pragmatic intervention on stress prevention and management among police officers. This will enhance the policing role of officers, thus contributing to the safety of the communities they serve. PACTR Registry: PACTR202310474721238. Registered on 6 October, 2023. https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=25663 . Protocol version number 1.0 (date: 6 October, 2023). 2.WorldWide University Network- Improving the management of PTSD in orphans and Vulnerable children 3.TETFUND- WASH project 1. Adefolarin, A. O., & Arulogun, O. S. (2018). Need Assessment for Health Education Service Provision on Maternal Depression Among Primary Health Care Service Providers. Archives of basic and applied medicine, 6(1), 27–33. 2. Adefolarin, A. O., & Arulogun, O. S. (2018). Perception of Mothers and Selected Informal Maternity Caregivers Regarding Maternal Depression in Two Communities of Ibadan In Nigeria. Archives of Basic and Applied medicine, 6(1), 17–26. 3. Adefolarin A.O, Gershim A, Sola A. O, Oye G.(2021). The effect of training and supervision on primary health care workers' competence to deliver maternal depression inclusive health education in Ibadan, Nigeria: a quasi-experimental study. BMC Health Serv Res. Nov 30;21(1):1286. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-07208-3. PMID: 34847938; PMCID: PMC8630868. 4. Adefolarin, A.O., Gershim, A. (2022) Content validation of educational materials on maternal depression in Nigeria. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 22, 322. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04575-5 5. Elugbadebo, O., Ojagbemi, A., Adefolarin, A.O et al. (2021) Access and Discontinuity of Care at an Outpatient Mental Health Service for Older People in South-Western Nigeria. Community Ment Health J 57, 1518–1524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00768-4 6. Kola L, Abiona D, Adefolarin A.O, Ben-Zeev D.(2021)Mobile Phone Use and Acceptability for the Delivery of Mental Health Information Among Perinatal Adolescents in Nigeria: Survey Study. JMIR Ment Health. Jan 26;8(1):e20314. doi: 10.2196/20314. PMID: 33496678; PMCID: PMC7872837. 7. Kola, Lola and Kumar, Manasi and Fatodu, Tobi and Kola, Manasseh and A Olayemi, Bisola and O. Adefolarin, Adeyinka and Ben-Zeev, Dror. (2022). Nigerian Adolescent Mothers’ Perceptions of mHealth Use for Depression: A Qualitative Study. Available SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4068269 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4068269 8. Kola L, Kumar M, Kohrt B.A, Fatodun T, Olayemi B.A, Adefolarin A.O. (2022) Strengthening public mental health during and after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. Mar 24:S0140-6736(22)00523-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00523-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35339230. 9. Thomas, O. E., Adefolarin, A., Ana, G., & Odaibo, G. (2023). Determinants of knowledge associated with occupational hazards and perceived health problems among dye workers in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Journal of Public Health in Africa. https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2023. 10. Adefolarin A.O 2024 Development of culturally appropriate health information for educational materials on maternal depression in southwest Nigeria. Public health discoveries, Volume 3, Issue 2, September, 2024 - pp 98-111 ISSN: 1115-4667 (print); 1115-4616 (online) 11. Kola L, Fatodu T, Kola M, Olayemi B, Adefolarin A, Dania S, Kumar M, Ben-Zeev D. Factors Impacting Mobile Health Adoption for Depression Care and Support by Adolescent Mothers in Nigeria: Preliminary Focus Group Study. JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e42406. URL: https://formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e42406. DOI: 10.2196/42406 12. Oluwasanu MM, Oladeji B, Oluwatobi H, Titiloye M, Adefolarin A, Unogu MO, Okafor P, Ajayi O, Uvere EO, Ajuwon AJ. Protocol for the development and piloting of a cluster randomised controlled trial for stress prevention, management, and coping mechanism among police officers in Nigeria. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2024 Nov 13;10(1):140. doi: 10.1186/s40814-024-01559-4. PMID: 39538353; PMCID: PMC11559203. COMPLETED STUDENTS’ PROJECT ONGOING STUDENTS’ PROJECTS 1. Consortium for Advanced Research and Training in Africa (CARTA). Postdoc Grant Research collaboration: Co-Investigator 2. TETFUND- Development of stress management model for Nigeria police force 3. May-July 2020 Three months Manuscript writing postdoc $9000̴-€6,886.53 4. August-October 2021 three months SIDA grant: Data mining and manuscript writing $2500-€1,912.92 Adeyinka loves to travel and visit historic places. She loves green environment, and nature, and she loves to meditate on the word of God.Profile
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Title: Stress management interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAC): An umbrella review
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Year: 2024-2025
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Title: Addressing maternal depression through health education delivery capacity building for Primary Healthcare workers
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