Abel Fekadu Dadi
@uog.edu.et
University of Gondar
Scopus Publications
- Prenatal alcohol use effects on birth, development, and educational outcomes in the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in the Northern Territory of Australia: a study protocol
Behailu Derseh, Abel Dadi, Steven Guthridge
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2026 - Trends in prenatal alcohol use from 2001 to 2017 in the Northern Territory, Australia: a joinpoint regression analysis
Behailu Derseh, Abel Dadi, Hoang Phan, Holger W Unger, Kiarna Brown, et al.
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2026 - Systematic review and meta-analysis of digital interventions for mental health in cancer patients and survivors
Zekariyas Sahile Nezenega, Setognal B. Aychiluhm, Allen G. Ross, Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, Meless G. Bore, et al.
Npj Digital Medicine, 2026 - Pedestrian Crashes in the Northern Territory, Australia: A Detailed Epidemiological Analysis From 2013 to 2023
S. Clifford, K. K. S. Lee, G. Lamba, A. Dadi, R. Canty, et al.
Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2026
Objectives Pedestrian crashes are a major concern in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, but the factors associated with these crashes differ from those in other Australian jurisdictions. This study aims to provide a comprehensive investigation of pedestrian crashes in the NT. Methods Using police crash records and hospitalisation data, we conducted a retrospective observational analysis. We describe crash factors and calculate standardised rate ratios to compare involvement by gender, age and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status. Stepwise logistic regression was used to explore crash factors contributing to fatal and ‘severe injury collision’ outcomes. Results Male pedestrians were 1.43 times (95% CI: 1.22–1.66) more likely to be involved in crashes and 1.38 times more likely to be hospitalised (95% CI: 1.23–1.56). Across all age groups, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pedestrians had higher crash involvement and fatality rates. Among those aged 35–44 years, the likelihood of being involved in a fatal crash increased 35‐fold (95% CI: 8.81–305.88), while severe injury risk increased 14‐fold (95% CI: 8.83–23.81). Most crashes occurred during clear weather and light traffic, on straight, flat, sealed and dry roads. Factors that influence the severity of injuries in a pedestrian crash are visibility, road speed limit and driver and pedestrian alcohol and drug use. Conclusion Improving lighting on roads with speed limits ≥ 70 km/h should be prioritised, or speed limits reduced where lighting upgrades are not feasible. Keeping people safe while they are intoxicated is a priority for reducing pedestrian injuries and deaths. - Cognitive performance in offspring of parents with severe mental illness: a meta-analysis
Akilew A. Adane, Abel Dadi, Alemken Jegnie, Abay W. Tadesse, Biruk Beletew Abate, et al.
Psychological Medicine, 2026
Parental severe mental illnesses (SMIs), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder (MDD), can impact children’s well-being, yet existing meta-analyses are limited in scope and methodology and do not comprehensively assess cognitive and academic performance in offspring across SMIs. This meta-analysis aimed to synthesize the existing evidence on the association between parental SMIs and offspring cognitive and academic performance. MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL were searched from their inception to December 2025. We included studies assessing associations between parental SMIs and offspring cognitive/academic performance at any age, including attention, memory, language, executive function, processing speed, IQ, social cognition, and academic performance. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) between offspring of parents with SMIs and controls were calculated. Differences in cognitive performance between affected offspring and controls were pooled using random-effects meta-analyses, with robust variance estimation. The meta-analysis included 109 studies (1,586,339 participants). Parental schizophrenia was strongly associated with several cognitive domains, including general cognition (SMD = −1.07, 95% CI: −1.92, −0.22), language (−0.70; −1.20, −0.20), and IQ (−0.53; −0.72, −0.34). Parental bipolar disorder was associated with general cognition (SMD = −0.45, 95% CI = −0.79, −0.12), memory (−0.40; −0.60, −0.19), executive function (−0.34; −0.51, −0.16), IQ (−0.32; −0.48, −0.17), and language (−0.18, 95% CI -0.34, −0.02). Parental MDD showed weaker but statistically significant associations with executive function, general cognition, and language development. Children of parents with SMIs, particularly schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, are at increased risk of cognitive difficulties. Population-level early intervention strategies targeting these families may improve offspring’s cognitive performance. - Extent, Timing, and Predisposing Factors of Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using Demography Health Surveys From 2015 to 2021
Abel F. Dadi, Kedir Y. Ahmed, Kayli Wild, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu, Adhanom Gebreegziabher Baraki, et al.
Health Science Reports, 2026
Background and Aims Reliable evidence on the extent, characteristics, and timing of intimate partner violence (IPV) is crucial for guiding targeted interventions in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). This study draws on the most recent demographic and health surveys (DHSs) conducted in SSA to identify approaches for preventing and responding effectively to women experiencing IPV. Methods We assessed sociodemographic data, maternal characteristics, and violence from the recent DHS (2015–2021) of 18 SSA countries. We performed a latent class analysis (LCA) to identify women experiencing similar levels of physical, sexual, and emotional violence and to examine their common characteristics. We fit a Cox proportional hazard model to determine predictors of short duration to the first episode of IPV after marriage. Results Our analysis included 84,717 women. We identified two distinct classes of IPV experience in SSA: a class with very high (class probability: physical (82.2%), sexual (77.6%), and emotional violence (33.8%) and a class with low violence. Six countries (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Mali, Tanzania, and Zambia) constituted more than two‐thirds of women who experienced all forms of violence in SSA. Approximately 25% of women had their first episode of all forms of IPV in their first year of marriage. Two important variables, the husband drinking alcohol and the woman's lack of autonomy, were associated with all forms of IPV and predicted the shortest time to the first episode of IPV after marriage. A husband drinking alcohol alone predicted 61% of IPV cases (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) = 0.613; 95% CI: 0.609, 0.616). Conclusions This study highlights the importance of comprehensive treatment and prevention efforts that include both criminal justice and public health strategies focusing on women who drink their partner and who have low authority in the first two to 3 years of marriage. - Unravelling dual violence against women in Ethiopia: Experiences of obstetric violence and postpartum intimate partner violence
Millicent Makandi, Lenka Beňová, Samson Gebremedhin, Zemzem Mohammed, Nicole Votruba, et al.
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, 2026 - Prevalence of prenatal alcohol use among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory, Australia: estimate from perinatal, emergency, and admission datasets
Behailu Derseh, Abel Dadi, Hoang Phan, Holger W Unger, Kiarna Brown, et al.
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2025 - Anxiety symptoms during pregnancy and risk of adverse birth outcomes in Gondar Town Ethiopia
Abel F. Dadi, Tahir A. Hassen, Daniel B. Ketema, Kedir Y. Ahmed, Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, et al.
Scientific Reports, 2025 - Person-centred maternity care during childbirth: a systematic review in low and middle-income countries
Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, Abel F Dadi, Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, Tahir A Hassen, Kedir Y. Ahmed, et al.
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2025 - Implementation, effectiveness, and barriers of obstetric triage in reducing waiting time: a scoping review
Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, Abel F. Dadi, Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, Subash Thapa, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, et al.
Reproductive Health, 2025 - Correction to: Gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict in Northern Ethiopia (Conflict and Health, (2024), 18, 1, (1), 10.1186/s13031-023-00563-4)
Desalew Salew Tewabe, Muluken Azage, Gizachew Yismaw Wubetu, Sisay Awoke Fenta, Mulugeta Dile Worke, et al.
Conflict and Health, 2025 - Cardiometabolic Outcomes among Adults with Abdominal Obesity and Normal Body Mass Index
Kedir Y. Ahmed, Setognal B. Aychiluhm, Subash Thapa, Teketo Kassaw Tegegne, Daniel Bekele Ketema, et al.
JAMA Network Open, 2025 - Antenatal anxiety symptoms and its contributing factors: The case in urban areas of Ethiopia
Koku S. Tamirat, Sara Shishehgar, Abel F. Dadi
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2025 - Association Between Preconception Maternal Mental Health-Related Hospitalisation (MHrH) and Outcomes During Pregnancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study in the Northern Territory, Australia
Abel F. Dadi, Vincent He, Rosa Alati, Karen Hazell-Raine, Philip Hazell, et al.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2025 - Socioeconomic inequality for hypertension among reproductive age women aged 15–49 from five Sub-Saharan Africa countries: A decomposition analysis of DHS Data
Daniel Bekele Ketema, Desalegn Markos Shifti, Teketo Kassaw Tegegne, Daniel Bogale Odo, Subash Thapa, et al.
Plos Global Public Health, 2025 - The intergenerational association of preterm birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Abdulbasit Seid, Miranda S. Cumpston, Kedir Y. Ahmed, Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, Subash Thapa, et al.
BJOG an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2025 - Digital versus nondigital behavioral interventions on cardiovascular risk reduction: systematic review and meta-analysis
Fentaw Tadese Berhe, Desalegn Markos Shifti, J Lennert Veerman, Leopold Aminde, Kedir Yimam Ahmed, et al.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2025 - Precancerous lesion determinants in women attending cervical cancer screening at public health facilities in North Shoa Zone, Amhara, Ethiopia: an unmatched case-control study
Dereje Abebe Teklehaimanot, Abinet Dagnaw Mekuria, Abel Fekadu Dadi, Behailu Tariku Derseh
BMC Women S Health, 2024 - Intergenerational risk of preterm birth in First Nations Australians: a population-based cohort study from the Northern Territory, Australia
Holger W Unger, Abel Dadi, Kiarna Brown, David Simon, Steven Guthridge
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2024 - Individual- and community-level predictors of healthcare-seeking behaviour for acute respiratory tract infections among children under five in 29 low-and middle-income countries: a multilevel analysis
D.B. Ketema, A.F. Dadi, T.A. Hassen, G.D. Kibret, Z.Y. Kassa, et al.
Public Health, 2024 - Gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict in Northern Ethiopia
Desalew Salew Tewabe, Muluken Azage, Gizachew Yismaw Wubetu, Sisay Awoke Fenta, Mulugeta Dile Worke, et al.
Conflict and Health, 2024 - Trends and social determinants of the obesity epidemic among reproductive-age women in ten Asian countries
Subash Thapa, Kedir Y. Ahmed, Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, M. Mamun Huda, Binaya Chalise, et al.
Scientific Reports, 2024 - Global Disparities of Cancer and Its Projected Burden in 2050
Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, Kedir Y. Ahmed, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Abel F. Dadi, Sewunet Admasu Belachew, et al.
JAMA Network Open, 2024 - Spatiotemporal patterns and factors contributing to neonatal mortality in Ethiopia: Data from EDHS 2000 to 2019
Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, Abel F. Dadi, Erkihun Amsalu, Addisu Alehegn Alemu, et al.
Plos One, 2024
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Pedestrian Crashes in the Northern Territory, Australia: A Detailed Epidemiological Analysis From 2013 to 2023
S Clifford, KKS Lee, G Lamba, A Dadi, R Canty, F Wardle, R Ramsamy, ...
Health Promotion Journal of Australia 37 (3), e70191 , 2026
2026 - Incidence and risk factors for postnatal mental health-related hospitalisation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women giving birth in the Northern Territory
DM Belay, B Leckning, HW Unger, K Brown, B Derseh, AF Dadi, ...
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth , 2026
2026 - Extent, Timing, and Predisposing Factors of Intimate Partner Violence in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis Using Demography Health Surveys From 2015 to 2021
AF Dadi, KY Ahmed, K Wild, TY Akalu, AG Baraki, AB Teshale, ...
Health Science Reports 9 (4), e72392 , 2026
2026 - Trends in prenatal alcohol use from 2001 to 2017 in the Northern Territory, Australia: a joinpoint regression analysis
B Derseh, A Dadi, H Phan, HW Unger, K Brown, DM Belay, S Guthridge
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth , 2026
2026 - The role of social capital in improving diet of pregnant women in Southern Ethiopia: A non-randomized cluster controlled study
Y Tariku, A Fekadu, K Baye
Nutrition, 113193 , 2026
2026 - Unravelling dual violence against women in Ethiopia: Experiences of obstetric violence and postpartum intimate partner violence
M Makandi, L Beňová, S Gebremedhin, Z Mohammed, N Votruba, ...
Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 101199 , 2026
2026 - Cognitive performance in offspring of parents with severe mental illness: a meta-analysis
AA Adane, A Dadi, A Jegnie, AW Tadesse, BB Abate, CCJ Shepherd, ...
Psychological medicine 56, e115 , 2026
2026 - Systematic review and meta-analysis of digital interventions for mental health in cancer patients and survivors
ZS Nezenega, SB Aychiluhm, AG Ross, ZY Kassa, MG Bore, ...
npj Digital Medicine , 2025
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B Derseh, A Dadi, S Guthridge
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth , 2025
2025 - Prevalence of prenatal alcohol use among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory, Australia: estimate from perinatal, emergency, and admission datasets
B Derseh, A Dadi, H Phan, HW Unger, K Brown, DM Belay, S Guthridge
BMC pregnancy and childbirth 25 (1), 1110 , 2025
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Citations: 1 - Cardiometabolic outcomes among adults with abdominal obesity and normal body mass index
KY Ahmed, SB Aychiluhm, S Thapa, TK Tegegne, DB Ketema, ZY Kassa, ...
JAMA network open 8 (10), e2537942 , 2025
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Citations: 22 - Anxiety symptoms during pregnancy and risk of adverse birth outcomes in Gondar Town Ethiopia
AF Dadi, TA Hassen, DB Ketema, KY Ahmed, ZY Kassa, E Amsalu, ...
Scientific Reports 15 (1), 35475 , 2025
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Citations: 2 - Antenatal anxiety symptoms and its contributing factors: The case in urban areas of Ethiopia
KS Tamirat, S Shishehgar, AF Dadi
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 112379 , 2025
2025 - Association Between Preconception Maternal Mental Health-Related Hospitalisation (MHrH) and Outcomes During Pregnancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study in the Northern Territory …
AF Dadi, V He, R Alati, K Hazell-Raine, P Hazell, K Brown, S Guthridge
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 23 (4), 3206-3221 , 2025
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Citations: 1 - Socioeconomic inequality for hypertension among reproductive age women aged 15–49 from five Sub-Saharan Africa countries: A decomposition analysis of DHS Data
DB Ketema, DM Shifti, TK Tegegne, DB Odo, S Thapa, A Dadi, TA Hassen, ...
PLOS global public health 5 (7), e0004738 , 2025
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Citations: 1 - Gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict in the Amhara Region, Northern Ethiopia (vol 18, 1, 2024)
DS Tewabe, M Azage, GY Wubetu, SA Fenta, MD Worke, AM Asres, ...
CONFLICT AND HEALTH 19 (1) , 2025
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SM Abebe, M Abera, A Nega, Z Gizaw, M Bayisa, SF Demissie, M Belay, ...
International Journal of Public Health 70, 1607816 , 2025
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Citations: 5 - Implementation, effectiveness, and barriers of obstetric triage in reducing waiting time: a scoping review
ZY Kassa, AF Dadi, HM Bizuayehu, S Thapa, GD Kibret, TA Hassen, ...
Reproductive Health 22 (1), 43 , 2025
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Citations: 4 - Person-centred maternity care during childbirth: a systematic review in low and middle-income countries
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BMC pregnancy and childbirth 25 (1), 147 , 2025
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Citations: 642 - Global burden of antenatal depression and its association with adverse birth outcomes: an umbrella review
AF Dadi, ER Miller, TA Bisetegn, L Mwanri
BMC public health 20 (1), 173 , 2020
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HM Bizuayehu, KY Ahmed, GD Kibret, AF Dadi, SA Belachew, T Bagade, ...
JAMA network open 7 (11), e2443198 , 2024
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BMJ global health 6 (12) , 2021
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PloS one 15 (1), e0227323 , 2020
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Citations: 229 - Postnatal depression and its association with adverse infant health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
AF Dadi, ER Miller, L Mwanri
BMC pregnancy and childbirth 20 (1), 416 , 2020
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Citations: 223 - Burden and determinants of malnutrition among pregnant women in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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PloS one 14 (9), e0221712 , 2019
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