Dr. Olayinka ATILOLA

MBBS (Ilorin), FWACP (Nig.), FMCPsych (Nig.), PGD (Rotterdam)

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olayinka.atilola@lasucom.edu.ng

Academic Background, Trainings, Skills, Positions, Teaching, Achievements (in Summary).

Dr. Olayinka ATILOLA is a registered medical practitioner in Nigeria being fully registered under the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act. He is a trained Psychiatrist with specialization in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He is a Fellow of the Medical College of Psychiatrists of Nigeria as well as Fellow of the West African College of Physicians. Aside his training in Nigeria, he received complimentary training, outside Nigeria, in different aspects of assessment and treatment of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. He is an Alumnus of the Children and Youth Studies program of the International Institute of Social Studies in Hague, Netherlands. Dr. Atilola is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with interest in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In the course of his academic and professional work, he has been involved in training and design of child and adolescent mental-health services at various levels. For instance, he is the team leader of a school-linked multidisciplinary team comprising of applied behaviour analysts; speech and language therapists, special education specialists, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists, for the assessment and treatment of neuro-developmental disorders. He is also the team leader, of a mental health services outreach for incarcerated children and youth in Lagos, in partnership with the Lagos State Ministry of Social Welfare. He has published at least 80 peer-reviewed articles in local and international journals. His main area of research interest is in child and adolescent psychiatry. In this regard, he has critically examined theoretical models in child psychiatry research, conducted cross-cultural validity and measurement invariance studies in child psychiatry, assessed mental-health service needs of children within the youth correctional systems, and has been involved in school mental-health service research. Other areas of research interest include trans-cultural psychiatry, occupational mental-health, and field epidemiology of mental disorders. Based on scholarly output and citations, he was ranked in the top band of the first 500 academic researchers in any field of human endeavour in Nigeria by SciVal (Elsevier) in both 2020 and 2021. Dr. Atilola is a Fellow of the Nigerian Young Academy of Science and a former Young Physician Leader of the World Academy of Science. He is also a co-founder of the International Child Mental Health Study Group, a group of young child & adolescent psychiatrists bridging child mental-health research gaps in the developing countries of the world.

Research Interests/Specialisations

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Publications

1. Atilola O (2021).
Forging a career as a child and adolescent psychiatry researcher in Nigeria: Surmounting challenges and taking opportunities. EBioMedicine, Vol 66, 103304,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103304

Forging a career as a child and adolescent psychiatry researcher in Nigeria: Surmounting challenges and taking opportunities. EBioMedicine, Vol 66, 103304,

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103304

2. Atilola O et al (2021).
External locus-of-control partially mediates the association between cumulative trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms among adolescents from diverse background. Anxiety, Stress & Coping,
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2021.18912244(3): 1-7

External locus-of-control partially mediates the association between cumulative trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms among adolescents from diverse background. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2021.1891224

3. Atilola O et al (2021)
The cross-cutting psychosocial and systemic barriers to holistic rehabilitation, including educational re-engagement, of incarcerated adolescents: Realities in and perspectives from Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 81, 102335
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102335

The cross-cutting psychosocial and systemic barriers to holistic rehabilitation, including educational re-engagement, of incarcerated adolescents: Realities in and perspectives from Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 81, 102335

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102335

4. Atilola O et al (2020).
Psychiatric morbidity among adolescents and youth involved with the juvenile justice system in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic scoping review of current studies and research gaps. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol 73,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101633

Psychiatric morbidity among adolescents and youth involved with the juvenile justice system in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic scoping review of current studies and research gaps. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol 73,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101633

5. Atilola O et al (2020)
Comparative risk of victimization for adolescent boys processed through the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems in Lagos Nigeria. International Journal of forensic Mental Health. Vol. 19, 377-390:
https//doi.org/1080/14999013.2020.1793844

Comparative risk of victimization for adolescent boys processed through the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems in Lagos Nigeria. International Journal of forensic Mental Health. Vol. 19, 377-390: https//doi.org/1080/14999013.2020.1793844

6. Hughes N, Ungar M, Fagan A, Murray J, Atilola O, et al (2020).
Health determinants of adolescent criminalisation. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30347-5

Health determinants of adolescent criminalisation. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30347-5

7. Moreira P, Vaz JM, Stevanovic D, Atilola O et al (2019).
Locus of control, negative life events and psychopathological symptoms in collectivist adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109601

Locus of control, negative life events and psychopathological symptoms in collectivist adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109601

8. Ola B, Atilola O. (2019).
Task-shifted interventions for depression delivered by lay primary health-care workers in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Global Health,
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30197-4

Task-shifted interventions for depression delivered by lay primary health-care workers in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Global Health,

http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30197-4

9. Adewuya AO, Ola BA, Coker O, Atilola O, et al (2019).
A stepped care intervention for non-specialist health workers' management of depression in the Mental Health in Primary Care (MeHPriC) project, Lagos, Nigeria: A cluster randomised controlled trial. General Hospital Psychiatry, Vol. 60, 76-82.
doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.07.012. .

A stepped care intervention for non-specialist health workers’ management of depression in the Mental Health in Primary Care (MeHPriC) project, Lagos, Nigeria: A cluster randomised controlled trial. General Hospital Psychiatry, Vol. 60, 76-82.

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.07.012.

Dr. Olayinka ATILOLA