Ijezie Ogochukwu Ann, Okagbue Hilary Izuchukwu, Oloyede Olufemi Adebari, Heaslip Vanessa, Davies Philip, Healy Jane
Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University Poole UK.
Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology Covenant University Ota Ogun State Nigeria.
J Public Aff. 2021 Nov;21(4):e2601. doi: 10.1002/pa.2601. Epub 2021 Feb 4.
This article chronicles the present situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Nigeria. A systematic search was conducted on three bibliographic databases: MEDLINE Complete, Web of Science and Scopus, and supplemented with grey literature searches to assess studies on the effect of COVID-19 on these individuals in Nigeria with data on this group from December 2019 to July 2020. There were no studies found concerning individuals with IDD in Nigeria. This article argues for an urgent call to action by Nigerian policymakers to make data available to help understand the impact of COVID-19 and to develop and implement appropriate interventions. This article provides steps to support and care for these individuals in Nigeria. Forecasting models are recommended which offer better approaches in yielding accurate predictions and provide valuable decisions in the event of future threats and infectious disease outbreak in Nigeria.
本文记录了2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）在尼日利亚智力和发育障碍（IDD）患者中的现状。我们对三个文献数据库进行了系统检索：MEDLINE Complete、科学网和Scopus，并辅以灰色文献检索，以评估2019年12月至2020年7月期间COVID-19对尼日利亚这些患者影响的研究，且这些研究需包含该群体的数据。未发现有关尼日利亚IDD患者的研究。本文主张尼日利亚政策制定者应立即采取行动，提供数据以帮助了解COVID-19的影响，并制定和实施适当的干预措施。本文提供了在尼日利亚支持和照顾这些患者的步骤。建议采用预测模型，这些模型能提供更好的方法以做出准确预测，并在尼日利亚未来面临威胁和传染病爆发时提供有价值的决策。
