The use of nursing process allows for individualized nursing care which allows for quality delivery of care. However, nurses’ ability to utilize nursing process may be affected by many factors. Thus, this study assessed the factors influencing implementation of nursing process among Nurses working at Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The study adopted a survey to gather data from a total number of hundred (220) nurses who were randomly selected for the study. Self-designed questionnaire was used for the data collection. Descriptive analysis was done for the data gathered and results were presented using frequency and percentage tables. Findings from the study shows that, majority, (88.2%) agreed that identification of patents priority is easy using NP, 95.5% agreed that nursing process is time consuming and stressful, 95.6% agreed with in-service training. The study concluded that nurses had good knowledge of nursing process though some factors were largely identified to be affecting the utilization of the nursing process. The study recommends that the factors affecting the implementaion of the nursing process should be worked on in order to improve the quality of care rendered.
Background: In Africa, menstrual hygiene and its practices are still clouded by taboos and sociocultural restrictions, ignorance and illiteracy so that menstruation is viewed in a base manner, and considered dirty and filthy, which requires the isolation of the woman from some normal daily activities. Thus, menstrual hygiene involves the conditions and activities that promote and preserve health during menstruation. This study assessed the awareness of menstrual hygiene and factors affecting its practice among adolescent girls in two selected senior secondary schools in Ogun state, Nigeria. Method: The study utilized quantitative cross-sectional survey design. Purposive sampling technique was used in selecting 150 respondents for the study in the two selected senior secondary schools. Descriptive statistics, correlation and T-test fixed at 0.05 significance level was conducted to give statistical responses to the research hypotheses using SPSS version 21. Result: The result showed that adolescent girls in Babcock University High School (BUHS) and Remo High School (RHS) had advanced knowledge of menstrual hygiene and they had moderate practices of menstrual hygiene, but there were factors like religion and lack of conducive facilities affecting the effective practice among adolescent girls. Furthermore, respondents’ knowledge on menstrual hygiene had no significant positive relationship with practices of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in private schools and those in public schools (r = .022, p > .01). There was no significant difference between adolescent girls in private and public schools on practice of menstrual hygiene. Conclusion: Adolescent girls in BUHS and RHS had advanced knowledge of menstrual hygiene but moderate menstrual hygiene practices. This may be as a result of factors such as religion and lack of conducive facilities that hinder the effective practice among adolescent girls as identified in the study. Among other recommendations, the school administrations are advised to provide more conducive and appealing facilities for adolescent girls to practise good menstrual hygiene.
Rather than being celebrated, the eventual discovery of systems of vaccination against COVID-19 pandemic was otherwise greeted with pessimism, causing attrition and low uptake of the vaccines in some cultures, especially in African countries. This study assessed factors (social, ethno-cultural, and religious) associated with uptake of COVID 19 vaccines among adults in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design to collect data from 384 adult residents living in Ifo Local Government who were selected using multi-stage sampling procedure. Relevant data was collected for the study with the use of a validated self-developed and well-structured questionnaire instrument consisting of 5 sections labelled (Sections A-E). Descriptive statistics like frequency counts, mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research objectives while multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis. The result revealed that the levels of influence of social, ethno-cultural and religious factors on the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among adults were moderate. Also, there was significant composite influence of social, ethno-cultural and religious factors on uptake of COVID -19 vaccine among adults (F3 383=36.586; p<.05). It was recommended among others that the entire Health Ministry and donor agencies should focus on social settings like family units, community associations, schools, social media, registered clubs and associations to spread right knowledge and awareness on the need for all to get vaccinated.
Objective: Good nutrition is important in promoting health and is dependent on the quality of food eaten. Little has been researched on the dietary practices among the workforce in Nigeria. This study aimed at assessing the dietary knowledge, practices, and factors influencing dietary practices and work productivity among the non-medical staff of Universities. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional survey of 398 non-medical staff of Babcock University who were selected using the multi-stage sampling technique. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 21) to compute frequency distributions, means, and standard deviations. Nutritional knowledge, dietary practices, and barriers to work productivity were assessed. Inferential statistical analysis was conducted using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Results: The mean age among respondents was 38.68±11.04, with the majority being female 54.6%. of the respondents (61.1%) of Yoruba origin, about three percentiles (66%) were members of staff while (34%) were faculty members. The computed level of knowledge and dietary-based practices scores were (2.57±0.61) and (3.64±1.44) respectively, indicating poor knowledge and dietary practices, while the barriers that influence work productivity among workers (11.34±5.286) were high at 87.2%. No significant association was found between nutritional knowledge and dietary practices of staff and faculty (p=.154), but a significant association was found between dietary practices and work productivity of staff and faculty (p=.019) Conclusion: Health education and promotion of good nutrition should be incorporated in the workplace, interventions that will improve work productivity among workers are also encouraged. This will culminate in a well-fed and healthy workforce.
Nearly one in ten women of reproductive age worldwide has an unmet need for family planning. Although contraceptive usage has increased globally, sub-Saharan Africa has recorded the lowest usage of contraceptives worldwide, with Nigeria, the country with the highest population in Africa still recording a low prevalence of contraceptive usage. This descriptive survey assessed the knowledge and utilization of family planning services among 85 women attending a comprehensive health centre in Ogun State. Data analysis was done with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 and hypotheses were tested using chi-square. Findings revealed the level of knowledge on family planning was above average as 55.8% demonstrated good knowledge; however, utilization of family planning services was below average as 55.8% showed inadequate utilization. While significant association was found between the utilization of family planning and the number of children per household, (χ2=8. 649, p = 0.034), no significant association was found between knowledge of the respondents and their utilization of family planning services (χ2=0.828, p = 0.730), and also between knowledge of the respondents and their educational level (χ2=4.303, p = 0.116). Although the level of knowledge in this study was above average, there is still room for improvement even as the knowledge did not translate into adequate utilization of family planning services. This calls for more advocacy and interventions to combat this trend. This will hopefully improve contraceptive prevalence while aligning Nigeria with the Sustainable Development Goal of providing universal access to reproductive health services by 2030.
Healthcare wastes (HCWs) are one of the most hazardous wastes globally; second to only radiation waste. In developing countries especially in Africa, healthcare waste has not received the much needed attention that it deserves. This is because of the inadequate resources in these countries resulting into low priority for HCW management. The objectives of the study assess nurses' knowledge about, find out nurses' attitude towards HCW management and identify the factors influencing HCW management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State. A cross-sectional non experimental descriptive survey design and convenient sampling technique was employed. Self developed instrument with 32 items was distributed among 129 eventually 120 correctly retrieved among nurses who are directly involved in generation and disposal of healthcare waste in the State hospital ijaiye and Oba Ademola II hospital, Ake Abeokuta. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical package of social science (SPSS) version 2.0 and presented with percentage and frequency tables. All the three (3) research questions were answered based on the findings of the study which can be deduced that revealed that majority (75.0%) of the respondents have high knowledge on HCW management while only few (25.0%) of them have low knowledge on it. Majorities (88.3%) of the respondents have positive attitude toward health care waste management while only few (11.7%) of them have negative attitude toward it. About factors influencing HCW management among respondents almost all (99.2%) of the factors have high impact and influence on health care waste management while only few (0.8%) of the factors is of low impact on HCW among respondents. According to the findings it is therefore recommended that Nurses should further improve their knowledge as regards the various forms of colour coding waste segregation beyond what is utilized in their health institution, healthcare waste inspectors must be introduced into the health sector for close monitoring of improper healthcare waste management. Conclusively, Nurses still need to brush up their understanding about certain aspect like location or sites to correctly carry out treatment and disposal of HCW and the extensive colour coding segregation system of HCW not just three colour.
Food borne illness has continued to be a serious public health problem in developing countries especially among school children (who are known as the high-risk group for intestinal parasitic infections), and this can be prevented by good hygiene practices among vendors in the schools. School children are exposed to hazards of purchasing and consuming food from food vendors who may harbour dangerous pathogens or have the potential of spreading infection to a large number of other students, owing to their food safety and hygiene practices. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the pattern of food safety and hygiene practices among food vendors in public primary schools in Ikenne Local Government Area, Ogun State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and the target population comprised 48 food vendors. The analysis revealed that 8.3% of the respondents had low knowledge of food safety and hygiene, 18.8% had moderate knowledge and 72.9% of them had high knowledge of food safety and hygiene. One-third of the respondents (33.3%) moderately practice food safety and hygiene and 66.7% highly practice food safety and hygiene. Factors that affected food safety and hygiene practices were access to protective equipment (100%), access to potable water (100%) and indoor food preparation environment (50%). There was a significant difference in the pattern of practice of food safety and hygiene among food vendors based on the level of knowledge of food safety and hygiene practice (p=0.000; t=45.208) and the level of education of the food vendors (p=0.00; t= 52.208). The study concluded that knowledge of food safety and hygiene practices among food vendors in public primary schools in Ikenne Local Government Area, Ogun State, Nigeria was high, though there was moderate practice. The study recommended that food vendors should be exposed to more training, regular monitoring, as well as providing basic facilities for food preparation in order to prevent the outbreak of food borne diseases among children.
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