Name: Olufisayo O. ELUGBADEBO Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alternate Email Address 1: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alternate Email Address 2: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Biography: Dr. Elugbadebo Olufisayo, MBBS, MSc, FWACP, is an early career clinical and academic psychiatrist. Her clinical and research interest is in Old Age Psychiatry. Her long-term career goal is to become a leading clinician and researcher in the field of mental health for older people in Africa, leading future research efforts to implement culturally-appropriate innovations to address the mental knowledge and healthcare gap in the elderly in LMICs. She has served as a collaborator in a large- scaled international research project: The long-term follow-up study of the Ibadan cohort of the Indianapolis-Ibadan Dementia project. She is currently having hands-on experience as a collaborator on two ongoing large-scale international research projects – The NIH funded Recruitment and Retention for Alzheimer’s Disease Diversity Genetic Cohorts in the ADSP (READD – ADSP) and a NIHR Trust funded Intervention for Depression in underserved Geriatric Populations (INDIGO). Dr Elugbadebo was selected as a trainee on the COVID supplement, 3D43TW009608-09S1, “Research Training to Mitigate the Mental Health Consequences of the Collision of HIV and COVID-19 in Nigeria” in 2021. She is currently conducting her mentored research project titled “Mental disorders among older adults living with HIV (OLHIV) and their experience with the COVID-19 Lockdown” especially those in low-and-middle-income countries which are largely under-researched. This project will provide much needed information on the mental health of OLHIV and explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and well-being of OLHIV in Nigeria. She is a fellow on the GALENOS (Global Alliance for Living Evidence on aNxiety, depressiOn and pSychosis) project; a project focused on synthesising new living evidence resource of early phase research for research prioritisation in mental health using living systematic reviews. In addition, she is currently enrolled on a PhD programme in Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan and her research is focused on Resilience in older adults. She has also coordinated local support groups for caregivers of persons living with dementia, planned participatory research activities, co-developed educational materials on dementia with patients and caregiver groups, and organised programmes where social engagements involving dancing are culturally adapted as innovations to improve the life quality of dementia patients, and better educate caregivers on how to manage associated behavioural problems, using non- pharmacological methods. Current Research and Capacity Building projects including Grants 1. Title : “Mental disorders among older adults living with HIV (OLHIV) and their experience with the COVID-19 Lockdown” 2. Title : Resilience, adversity and mental health problems in older adults SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. Olusegun Baiyewu, Oluyomi Esan & Olufisayo Elugbadebo. 2021 Mental Health of Older Adults. Inequalities and A Global Perspective of Inadequacies. Innovations in Global Mental Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70134-9_119-1. 2. Farombi T., Ugbomah L.O., Elugbadebo O. 2022 Intellectual Impairment; Mental State Examination in Older Adults. In C.O Alebiosu, O.E Ayodele, Essential textbook of Medicine JOURNALS 1. Fisayo Elugbadebo & Olusegun Baiyewu/Thomas Müller 2017. Cognitive Impairment among Elderly Patients Presenting with Fall Injury in Orthopaedic Clinics in South Western Nigeria. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/INDJ/2017/36582. 2. Akin Ojagbemi, Onoja Akpa, Fisayo Elugbadebo, Mayowa Owolabi & Bruce Ovbiagele/ Giuseppe Bellelli 2017 Depression after Stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Behavioural Neurology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/4160259 3. Akin Ojagbemi, Toyin Bello and Fisayo Elugbadebo 2019 Suicidal Thoughts and Contexts in Black African Stroke Survivors. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0891988718824035. 4. O. Baiyewu, O. Elugbadebo and Y. Oshodi 2020 Burden of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Older Adults in a Fragile Healthcare System: The Case of Nigeria: Dealing with Inequalities and Inadequacies International Psychogeriatrics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220001726 5. Akin Ojagbemi, Toyin Bello, Olufisayo Elugbadebo, Mayowa Owolabi & Olusegun Baiyewu 2020 Different Cognitive and Functional Outcomes in Attenuated and Full Delirium Syndromes Among Recent Stroke Survivors. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.105251 6. Elugbadebo O. & Baiyewu O. 2020. Fear of Falling and Depressive Symptoms in Elderly Nigerians with Fall Injury. Nigerian Journal of Psychiatry 7. O. Elugbadebo, A. Ojagbemi, A. Adefolarin & O. Gureje 2021 Access and Discontinuity of Care at an Outpatient Mental Health Service for Older People in South Western Nigeria. Community Mental Health Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00768-4. 8. Elugbadebo Olufisayo Oluyinka & Baiyewu Olusegun 2022 Mild Anxiety and Depression Disorders, an Unusual Reaction to COVID-19 Lockdown in Caregivers of Older Adults Attending a Psychogeriatric Clinic in Southwest Nigeria. Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/npmj.npmj_708_21. 9. Elugbadebo O.O, Omobowale, O.C & Oyinlola, O. 2022 A Triple Jeopardy: Inadequate Knowledge about COVID-19 among Older Persons with Psychiatric Diagnosis attending a Geriatric Centre in Southwest Nigeria West Africa Journal of Medicine DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36580566. 10. Jet M. J. Vonk, Alden L. Gross, Andrea R. Zammit, Laiss Bertola, Justina F. Avila, Roos J. Jutten, Leslie S. Gaynor, Claudia K. Suemoto, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Megan E. O’Connell, Olufisayo Elugbadebo, Priscilla A. Amofa, Adam M. Staffaroni, Miguel Arce Rentería, Indira C. Turney, Richard N. Jones, Jennifer J. Manly, Jinkook Lee, Laura B. Zahodne/ Godfred O. Boateng 2022 Cross-National Harmonization of Cognitive Measures Across HRS HCAP (USA) and LASI-DAD (India). Plos One DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264166. 11. Farombi Temitope, Akinyemi Olajoke, Adelaja Damilola, Elugbadebo Olufisayo and Khan Hafiz T.A. 2022 Empower to enrich the elderly program: for vulnerable older adults in Nigeria.. International Symposium of Social and Applied Gerontology . https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9646 12. Wright, S., Furukawa, T.A., Macleod, M., Simple, O., Elugbadebo, O., Chiocchia, V., Friedrich, C., Ostinelli, E.G., Potts, J., Ramage, F. and Siafis, S. 2023 Mechanisms through which exercise reduces symptom severity and/or functional impairment in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Protocol for a living systematic review of human and non-human studies. Wellcome Open Research 13. Atee M, Burley CV, Ojo VA, Adigun AJ, Lee H, Hoyle DJ, Elugbadebo O, Leon T. 2023 Physical restraint in older people: a statement from the Early Career Network of the International Psychogeriatric Association. International Psychogeriatrics 14. Ojagbemi A, Daley S, Feeney Y, Elugbadebo O, Kola L, Gureje O. 2023 Participatory development of a home‐based depression care model with lived experience older Nigerians and their caregivers: A theory of change. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 15. O. Elugbadebo, A. Ojagbemi & O. Gureje (2023). Mobile Phone Intervention to Reduce Dropout from Treatment at an Outpatient Mental Health Service for Older People in Nigeria African Journal of Health Sciences DOI: (Accepted, awaiting publication). 16. O. Elugbadebo & A. Ojagbemi (2023). Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Older Clinic Attendees About COVID-19 in South western Nigeria. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences DOI: (Accepted, awaiting publication). 1. Title: Follow Up Study of Ibadan Dementia. 2. Title: Research Training to Mitigate the Mental Health Consequences of the Collision of HIV and COVID-19 in Nigeria 3. Title: Recruitment and Retention for Alzheimer’s Disease Diversity Genetic Cohorts in the ADSP (READD – ADSP)Profile
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Funder: COVID-19 D43 Supplement of the NeuroAIDS Research and Training Programme- 3D43TW009608-09S1
Brief Summary : HIV remains a major epidemic of public health concern in this region, accounting for about two-thirds of all HIV infections worldwide. Several interventions have been developed to reduce the burden of the disease, however, the focus on HIV prevention and treatment services has been affected by the tremendous burden of COVID-19. The mental health challenges created by the collision of HIV and COVID-19 pandemics are expected to be greater in LMICs, which have fragile economic and healthcare infrastructure. This proposed study will explore the impact of the lockdown measures on older PLWHs in Nigeria as well as determine the prevalence of mental disorders.
Role: Principal Investigator
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Brief Summary: With aging comes many forms of adversity; illness, potential loss of loved ones, and decline in functional abilities. Psychological resources that enable older adults to cope with these challenges are important factors that contribute significantly to successful aging. Resilience is the ability to withstand and adapt to adversities, learn, grow, and be positively influenced by them. Resilience has been demonstrated to be significantly associated with some mental health constructs in elderly depressed patients. Many studies carried out on resilience are from high- income countries with adequate socioeconomic policies to support every human lifecycle stage unlike in low- and middle-income countries with poor socioeconomic policies resulting in poor quality of life and lower life expectancy. This study seeks to explore the factors in older Nigerian adults that increase their likelihood of having resilience, or the capability to successfully navigate adversity in a manner that protects mental health and well-being? It explores adversity in older adults, the ways in which they have developed and sustained resilience in their lifetime and the relationship with mental health problems in late life. In addition, this proposed study seeks to contribute to the understanding of how coping with adversity affects successful aging and life satisfaction.
Role: Principal Investigators
Collaborators: Prof Oye Gureje, Dr Akin Ojagbemi (supervisors)Publications
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Grant number: GRO 16680 NIA FUS MINI ME U01AGO62943-02.
Role: Collaborator
Grant number: 3D43TW009608-09S1
Role: Trainee on the COVID supplement
Grant number: U19AG074865.
To build a resource that greatly expands Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in the currently underrepresented African ancestry populations and Hispanic/Latinx groups, the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine will lead a major five-year, international, multi-site initiative with Case Western Reserve University, Columbia University, Wake Forest University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Ibadan, which is the lead institution for the African Dementia Consortium (AfDC). The new multi-site enterprise will help to bridge the research disparities that have historically existed in diverse communities. Through the recruitment, assessment, and genetic analysis of a significantly large cohort of participants of Hispanic/Latinx and African ancestries, clinical, phenotypic, and genetic data, along with social determinants of health factors, will be collected to create a large genomic study resource
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