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This study is concerned with analysis of challenges faced by Zimbabwe state university students in accessing appropriate contraception. Currently, university students in Zimbabwe face a number of challenges in accessing appropriate contraceptives. Three hundred (300) survey questionnaires were distributed to both female and male students at Zimbabwean state universities for data gathering. Thirty three (33) questionnaires were distributed and completed at eight state universities while...

Background. Intestinal parasitic infection is still common in Ethiopia. Periodic evaluation of the current status of human intestinal parasitic infections (HIPIs) is a prerequisite to controlling these health threats. This study is aimed at assessing the prevalence and determinant factors of HIPIs among elementary school-age children in Merawi town. Methods. A school-based cross-sectional study design was used among 403 children. The direct wet mount method was used to diagnose the stool...

This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as ‘fields’ governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive ‘fields’ of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child ‘being’ and ‘doing’. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, and the negotiation of the generational...

This chapter synthesises approaches to teacher professional development based on the evidence provided by three key reviews. A comprehensive and pragmatic set of eight principles for teacher professional development (TPD) in sub-Saharan Africa is presented, including recommendations for effective teaching and learning practices that facilitate a focus on student learning outcomes, professional status and motivation of teachers, design and conduct of professional-development programmes, and...

This study assessed the Effect of Social Skills Training on Social Phobia among Secondary School Students in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria. Three (3) Objectives were formulated to guide this study, and three (3) null hypotheses were tested. Quasi-experimental design involving pre-test and post-test was used. The population was made up of 1,742 secondary students who exhibited symptoms of social Phobia in Kaduna metropolis, Nigeria. A sample size of 20 students was selected through purposive...

This study examines a sample of African American students attending urban middle schools in a Southern city, and considers their perceptions of learning environments within mathematics classrooms. This study concluded that variables like Academic Self-Concept, Mathematics Anxiety, Satisfaction, Involvement, and Academic Aspiration varied significantly among higher and lower performing students. These variables are informed by the classic resilience literature on learning environment that...

This study is aimed at examining the influence of teaching methods on the learning of chemistry in secondary schools in Buea. The study adopted quantitative research design specifically quasi-experimental research design type. Target population comprised of lower sixth students in secondary schools in Buea Municipality. The sample size comprised of 32 students selected using stratified random sampling and simple random sampling. The quantitative data was analysed descriptively and...

Introduction: Little is known on the adaptation of African students to living in circumpolar areas. Aim: To study similarities and differences in temperature responses to local cold exposures in African students and permanent residents of the Russian Arctic. Methods: A series of thermal images of the hands of 15 students from Central Africa and 18 students - permanent residents of the Russian Arctic were taken at arrival, after adapting to the room conditions for 15-20 minutes, and after...

ABSTRACT Facilitation of career development and provision of psychosocial support to trainee teachers during teaching practice can be a challenge. The interpretive paradigm and the qualitative approach and case study research design were employed in this study. Purposive sampling was used to select 27 participants which included 6 mentors, 15 trainee teachers and 5 college lecturers. Data were obtained through face to face interviews, focus group discussions and document analysis. The study...

Automatic sentiment analysis has become one of the fastest growing research areas in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Despite its importance, this is the first work towards sentiment analysis at both aspect and sentence levels for the Tunisian Dialect in the field of Tunisian supermarkets. Therefore, we experimentally evaluate, in this paper, three deep learning methods, namely convolution neural networks (CNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), and bi-directional...

Good sleep hygiene plays an important role in human health. Medical students are notorious for insufficient and irregular sleep habits which are linked with students' learning abilities, poor academic performance, and poor interpersonal relationship which predispose them to mental illnesses. However, it has not been studied among medical students in Ethiopia.This institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 576 undergraduate medical students selected by using a stratified...

Abstract Background: There has been a growing interest to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the field of education. Most countries have made strides to adopt the use of ICT in teaching and learning. A lot of studies have been made to find out about attitudes of stakeholders in education on adopting the use of ICT . Aim: Considering that Malawi has recently been promoting the skills and vocational trades, this study was aimed at finding out how students in the technical...

Abstract Background: Inadequate health literacy and poor health practices among nurses could be a hindrance to empowering the population with good health practices. For the nurses to empower the population, they need to be equipped with good health literacy and good health practices. The starting point of solving this problem is through provision of deliberate health literacy and health practice education in the nursing curriculum. This study explored health literacy level and health...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether primary teacher education leaders in Amhara region value prospective teachers’ Desirable Affective Dispositions (DADs) or not. To achieve this purpose, a mixed concurrent triangulation design was employed. Data were collected from 30 college leaders of which 27 were selected comprehensively, whereas three of them were selected purposively. Moreover, for triangulation purpose, data were collected from six teacher educators and 18 prospective...

Abstract Introduction Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder with significant personal and socio-economic impacts. Medical students usually have multiple triggers for migraine, particularly stress and irregular sleep. Objective To assess the prevalence, characteristics, and degree of disability of migraine in a sample of Egyptian medical students and to study their health care-seeking practice when having migraine Patients and methods A descriptive cross-sectional,...

In many East African countries, women and men have different levels of access to formal markets for agricultural inputs, including seed, reflecting a combination of gender norms and resource constraints. As a result, women and men may have different levels of participation in—and reliance upon—informal seed systems for sourcing preferred planting material and accessing new crop varieties over time. We use network analysis to explore differences in seed networks accessed by women and men for...

The phreatic aquifer of Aousja-Ghar El Melh (governorate of Bizerta, northeast of Tunisia), has a great economic weight as it is tightly linked to irrigation and domestic consumption. The aquifer area is found mostly in agricultural zones where more and more chemical fertilizers are being used. Such chemical fertilizers, alongside industrial zones discharges appearing for the last 25 years, put at risk ground waters quality. The DRASTIC method has been applied to study the extent to which...

Introduction: Exposure to polluted air is a significant cause of health problems and lung disease. In Sudan, biomass fuel constitutes more than 80% of the total primary energy supply. Exfoliative sputum cytology provides useful information on pulmonary disorders. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the cytological changes in sputum samples taken from individuals living in the countryside and in an industrial area. Materials & Method: This is a case control descriptive study. The...

Africa is one of the least developed continents with a larger population of people living with intellectual disability. Various literature shows that having a person with disability is more of a taboo or curse as communities continue to hide them. Infrastructure developments are not making life easier for people living with disability (PWD). During COVID-19, PWD are left behind from communications, online learning, and online business; they are not given personal protective equipment, and...

<strong>PURPOSE:</strong> Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in men. The rate is disproportionately high among men in sub-Saharan Africa where, unlike in North America and Western Europe, the screening process for prostate cancer has historically not been routine. Currently, as awareness regarding prostate health increases, more patients in this region are being referred to trans-rectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy, a diagnosis procedure which requires a strong...