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Link to PubMed Profile: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/darlingtina.esiaka.1/bibliography/public/ 

 

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

  • Mahmoud, K., Baker, T., Esiaka, D., & Balogun, S. (In press). The Need to Appear Healthy: Concealment of Chronic Illness, Privacy, and Self-Sufficiency Among Chronically Ill Older Nigerians. Innovation in Aging.

  • Esiaka, D., Wilson, G., & Gluck, M. (2024). Strategies for recruiting older Black men into aging and Alzheimer’s research. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 18(1), 61-66. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/922330

  • Westrick, A. C., Esiaka, D. K., Meier, H. C., Rooks, R. N., Manning, M., & Tarraf, W. (2024). Cognition and Wealth Changes in Mid-to-later Life: A Latent Class Trajectories Approach Using the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Aging and Health, 0898264324123200

  • Chidebe, RCW., Orjiakor, T., Okwu, G., Orji, M., Nwosu-Zitta, T., Agha, A.A., Arua., S., Okem, A., Nwakasi, C., Adjei, G.A., Shinkafi-Bagudu, Z., Onyedibe, M., Okoye, I. & Esiaka, D. (2024). Not even my husband knows that I have this [breast cancer]”: Survivors’ Experiences in Accessing, Navigating and Coping with Treatment. Supportive Care in Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-024-08316-6

  • Nwakasi, C., Esiaka, D., Staab, T., Philip, A.A., & Arinze, N.C. (2024). HIV knowledge and information access among women cancer survivors in Nigeria. Journal of Cancer Policy, 100456.

  • Zhao, X., Adams, G., Xi, D., & Esiaka., D. (2023). Decolonizing Relationality: Reverence and Reciprocity in Prioritization of Care to a Parent. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.25384/SAGE.c.7001278.v1  

  • Nwakasi, C., Esiaka, D., Nwokeabia, C., & Ahmed, S.* (2023). “How will live this life I am trying to save?”: Being a female cancer survivor in Nigeria. Ethnicity & Health.

  • Egwuonwu, J., Ikedife, F., Idu, O.A., Ogba, K., Nwakasi, C., & Esiaka, D. (2023). Predictors of health risk behaviors during COVID-19 outbreak among educated Nigerians: Public health implications for curbing viral outbreaks in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Psychological Research.

  • Esiaka, D., & Luth, E. (2023). Different interpretations of "honor your parents": Implication for obligation of parental caregiving. The Journal of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbad106. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbad106 

  • Esiaka, D. Nwakasi, C., Nnamele, V., Idu, A., Egwuonwu, J. & Mahmoud, K. (2023).  Pathways to health outcomes after cancer diagnosis: A systematic review of cancer survivorship in Nigeria. Psycho-Oncology. 1‐ https://doi.org/1002/pon.6167

  • Booker, S., Baker, T., Esiaka, D., Minahan, J., Engel, I., Banerjee, K & Poitevien, M. (2023). A historical review of pain disparities research: Advancing toward health equity and empowerment. Nursing Outlook, 71(3), 101965.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2023.101965

  • Chidebe, R.C.W., Leibel, L., Orjiakor, T., Shrestha, A., Agha, A.A., Dindar, A.D, Kisakol, B., Ipiankama, C., Okoye, I., Malcom, M., Auguste, A., & Esiaka, D. (2023). Promoting cancer prevention through World Cancer Day in Nigeria. The Lancet Oncology. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00692-1

  • Nwakasi, C., Esiaka, D., Pawlowicz, A., Chidebe, R., Oluwagbemiga, O., & Mahmoud, K. (2022). “[The doctor] said I should go and wait for my death:” Dualities in care and support access among cancer survivors. Journal of Cancer Policy, 100374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2022.100374

  • Mahmoud, K., Issah., M. & Esiaka, D. (2022). Socio-cultural factors influencing the perception and management of Meningitis among older patients and their caregivers. Journal of Ageing and Longevity. 2022; 2(4):304-315. https://doi.org/10.3390/jal2040025

  • Esiaka, D. Nwakasi, C., Mahmood, K., & Philip, A. (2022). Perceived risk of Covid-19 diagnoses and stigma among Nigerians. Scientific African. e01411 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01411

  • Esiaka, D., Yarborough, C., Fausto, B., & Gluck, M. (2022). A mini-review of strategies for recruiting older African Americans to Alzheimer’s disease research. Community Health Equity Research and Policy.

  • Martin, M. G., Chidebe, R. C. W., Nwaneri, M. O., Miller, E., Okoye, I., Esiaka, D. K., Olasinde, T.A., Durosinmi-Etti, F.A., Igbinoba, F., Adegboyega, B.C., Adeniji, A., Aruah, C.S., Orjiakor, T.C., Abubakar, B.M., Atuwo, D., & O’Connor, T. (2022). Impact of 10-Day Fulbright Specialist Program and Project Pink Blue Education Sessions on Medical Oncology Knowledge Among Physicians Who Treat Cancer in Nigeria. Journal of Cancer Education, 1-5.

  • Nwakasi, C., Esiaka, D., Parajuli, J., & Subedi, J. (2022). Health Information Seeking and Mental Health Support Utilization among individuals in US Prison. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 28 (2). DOI: 10.1089/jchc.20.07.0053   

  • Nwakasi, C., Esiaka, D., Uchendu, I., & Bosun-Arije, S. (2022). Factors Influencing Compliance with Public Health Directives and Support for Government's Actions Against COVID-19: A Nigerian Case Study. Scientific African, e01089.

  • Osei-Tutu, A., Adams, G., Esiaka, D., Dzokoto, V.A., Affram, A.A., & Hanke, K. (2022). The modernity/coloniality of love: Individualist lifeways and charismatic Christianity in Ghanaian worlds. Journal of Social Issues. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12432

  • Esiaka, D., Zacchaeus, E. A., Obosi, A., Chidebe, R. C., & Iorfa, S. K. (2021). The Place of Psychology During a Pandemic: Lessons from COVID-19 in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Psychological Research, 17(2). 1-3.

  • Esiaka, D. Nwakasi, C., Brodie, K., Philip, A., & Ogba, K. (2021). Dying to be men: Masculinity and early cancer detection among Nigerian men. International Quarterly for Community Health Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272684X211004938

  • Esiaka, D. & Adams, G. (2020). Epistemic Violence in Research on Eldercare. Psychology and Developing Societies, 0971333620936948.

  • Esiaka, D., Adams, G., & Osei-Tutu, A. (2020). Dilemma tales as African knowledge practice: An example from research on obligations of support. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2666.

  • Nwakasi, C., Scot-Brown, J., Subedi, S, & Esiaka, D. (2020). Depression, functional disability, and accessing health care among older Ghanaians and South Africans: A comparative study based on WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) (CAMH-2019-0637). Aging and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1758904

  • Esiaka, D., Naemi, P., Kuofie, A., & Hess, R. (2019). General wellbeing in adult Black males with chronic illness. Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, 5, 1-8. DOI: 10.1177/2333721419855664

  • Atakere, D., & Baker, T. (2018). Early cancer detection behavior among Black males. Journal of Men’s Health, 14(3), e3-e13.

  • Atakere, D., & Baker, T. (2017). Predictors of perceived vulnerability to cancer diagnoses among Black males. Journal of Health Psychology. 1359105317695426.

  • Atakere, D., & Baker, T. (2016). Immuned by Race: Ethnic Identity, Masculinity, and Attachment as Predictors of Cancer Screening among Black men. Psychology, 7, 1023-1033.  doi: 10.4236/psych.2016.77103.

 

Books

  • Esiaka, D. & Abidogun, J. (In press). The narrative of Africa rising: Changing perspectives. Baltimore: Lexington Books.

 

Book Chapters

  • Esiaka, D.K. (In press). Introduction: Is Africa Rising: Competing Narratives. In Esiaka, D., Abidogun, J. The narrative of Africa rising: Changing perspectives. Baltimore: Lexington Books.
  • Esiaka D. (2021) Obligation of Eldercare in the Context of Pentecostal Charismatic Churches. In: Abidogun J.M., Recker S. (eds) Africa and the Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73415-2_6
  • Baker, T.A., Minahan, J.A., & Atakere, D. (2019). Pain and Men. In R.J. Thorpe (Ed.). Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Men’s Health and Aging. (Vol 39, pp. 95-106). New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Baker, T., Atakere, D. & Minahan, J. (2018). Chronic illnesses. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 351-353). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781506307633.n132
  • Baker, T. A., Atakere, D., Minahan, J., Kuofie, A. A., & Dirth T. (2017). Diversity in Aging Community.  In D. Maller (Ed.) & K. Langsam (Ed.), The Praeger Handbook of Community Mental Health and the Aging Community (pp. 93-112). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.