Background: Kano Plains, Kisumu County, Kenya experiences more severe river floods which is slow onset and predictable. The cost of annual relief and rehabilitation measures in Kano Plains alone is estimated at Kshs 57 million or US$ 600,000. This is attributed to the fact that since disasters do not occur frequently, people feel highly burdened to participate in community-based disaster preparedness activities during normal times when nothing happens. In this context, perceived risk does not contribute directly to taking protective responses. Thus, the socio-economic characteristics of the community and how these influence uptake of precautionary measures is the subject of inquiry in this paper. Results: The data for the study were collected through a survey of 384 households, five focus group discussions, and 21 key informant interviews. Descriptive analysis and frequency distribution were used to describe the data. Chi-Square test to determine the strength of the association between the variables and uptake of precautionary measures suggests no significant difference between education level and uptake. Binary logistic regression showed a significant difference on low uptake between those who lived within 2 Kms of River Nyando compared to those who lived more than 2 Kms from the river. Conclusions: Findings confirmed that high level of uptake of precautionary measures was dependent on distance, household composition, income, occupation of the household and social network type. It is hoped that these findings will encourage the government of Kenya to develop a policy that specifically informs residents of the flood prone areas on allowable distance from the river to where houses can be erected because some precautionary measures the households have employed involved moving to higher grounds.

The beginnings of the Indian short story in English were made under the influence of the Britishers. English Short Story began towards the close of the nineteenth Century in India. It is the distinct from the fables of the ‘Hitopadesh’ and the tales of Panchatantra’. The short Story has become the major expression of literature in India which is used as a weapon to rise the voice of Indians against the Britishers culturally and Politically. The Fragmentation of experience as a result of the increasing complexity of social changes, seems to make the short story an apt vehicle for exploring the dark places of the human spirit and disembodied states of being. It is a voyage of discovery of self-discovery, of self – realisation for the character.

Purpose: The Corona Virus disease popularly known as COVID-19 was first diagnosed in humans in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The study sought to analyze the influence of psychosocial factors on role performance among COVID-19 frontline Healthcare Workers in Busia County, Kenya. Methodology: Cross-sectional   research design was employed and multi stage sampling adopted to get the sample size of 298 respondents from a population of 873 frontline healthcare workers in Busia County, Kenya. Data were collected using questionnaire and interview schedule. The collected data were analyzed with multivariate regression analysis while qualitative findings were transcribed under themes. Findings: The variation explained by the psychosocial factors was 0.098 (9.8%). This did not change much after inclusion of confounders in the model with the final model (0.133). The study concluded that work-related psychosocial factors, especially emotional demands, work pace and role conflicts contributed to challenging work performance. Therefore psychosocial factors were a major predictor of role performance. Recommendation: The study recommends need to use based psychosocial factors to help change frontline HCWs working practices in order to enable them realize full potential in role performance.

Self concept is one's self identity. It's a representation of a person's own perceived beliefs, attitudes, competencies and characteristics. The researcher was motivated to make a study on the effectiveness of guidance and counseling services on adolescent self concept in schools within Khwisero district, in Kakamega County. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The district has a total of 24 public and 3 private secondary schools. The study used a target population sample of 240 students, 6 principals, 6 teacher counselors, and 3 education officials from 8 schools. Stratified random sampling and purposive and stratified techniques were used to sample the required schools according to their categories, select students, teachers and principals. The principals, teachers and student s' questionnaires were administered. An interview schedule for education officials was also given. To establish the reliability of the research instruments of the study, Pearson's Product Correlation Coefficient was computed; yielding a correlation coefficient of 0.87.The study findings revealed that there was positive correlation between effective guidance and counseling services and promotion of positive adolescent self concept. This study significantly assists education stake holders to develop and improve the self esteem of their learners. It's hoped that the Ministry of Education should provide guidelines on the implementation of effective guidance and counseling strategies and their relevance.

A pencil-and-paper version of the Implicit Association Test was used to evaluate the fluency with which participants could categorize sinful person and sinful behavior concepts with negative and positive words. The research was conducted in Kenya and the United States. Results indicated that participants from both countries were faster when they combined sinful person and sinful behavior concepts with negative words than when they combined sinful person and sinful behavior concepts with positive words. Thus participants from both countries manifested negative implicit sentiment for sinful person and sinful behavior concepts. However, the implicit negativity manifested by Kenyan participants exceeded that of U.S. participants. The research has implications for cultural differences between Kenya and the United States. It also has implications for cognitive theories that describe how implicit sentiments for sinful persons might be represented within an underlying network of cognitive associations.