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Abstract Formal developmental disabilities services are often underutilized, especially by low‐income African‐American families. This study examined the basis for interactions and service use preferences of African‐American woman who cared for an adult female child with a disability. Diverse African‐American perspectives were observed by analyzing the discourse of 11 low‐income African‐American carers using a direct informant interview technique. Two distinct discourses were identified: a...

Four Hundred and fifteen post menarcheal secondary school girls selected randomly from six secondary schools in Maiduguri metropolis were interviewed with the aid of questionnaires to find out their ages at menarche and associated menstrual problems, regularity of menstrual cycle, menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea within the first two years following menarche. Their ages ranged between 12 and 21 years. Twenty six students were three months post menarche, 187 were 4-12 months post menarche.'The...

Hypertension is a chronic illness with serious economic and clinical consequences. The asymptomatic nature of this condition contributes to the challenge of persistent medication use. The objectives of this qualitative study were to explore perceptions of medication meanings, illness, identity, and biographical disruption among people with hypertension, and to examine how salient themes and categories relate to medication use. In-person interviews were conducted with 20 participants....

Illiteracy, poverty with associated poor environmental sanitation practices have been implicated in the heavy burden of helminthiasis among children. The objective of this cross-sectional survey is to determine the impact of parents' level of education on the intestinal helminthic status of children.All patients, 0-15 years totaling 1030 who visited the communicable disease clinic of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, from October, 2001 to March 2002 were included in this...

To determine the pattern of psychiatric referrals over a six-month period categorise the psychiatric referrals into clinical syndromes and describe the nature of psychiatric intervention and outcome of such intervention on discharge and within the first three months after discharge.A descriptive prospective study.University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin Nigeria.Forty seven inpatients (26 females and 21 males) referred to the psychiatric department from other specialist units of...

The level of inorganic anions of the Eleme River over the rainy and dry season periods was investigated. Results indicated that parameters like temperature, conductivity and total dissolved solids were higher during the dry than rainy seasons. Others like pH, phosphate, sulfate and dissolved oxygen had higher rainy than dry season values. Temperature at sampling station 1 had values of 26.9±1.080C and 25.2± 0.060C for the dry and rainy seasons, respectively. Total dissolved solids at...

Experiential learning was used as a technique to teach nutrition assessment at the University of Zimbabwe, whereby, a class project augmented lectures. The purpose of the class project was to demonstrate how information from lectures could be used to assess the University\'s food environment and its ability to allow people on campus to meet Food Guide Pyramid recommendations. The campus food environment was defined as (a) sources of food for staff and faculty, (b) sources of food for...

Abstract A study was performed by the authors to determine the status and level of integration of information literacy within the academic programs of Library and Information Studies (LIS) at the University of Botswana. The study revealed that most of the library and information science courses had large components of information literacy content though issues relating to methods of course delivery, resource constraints, duplication of content across courses, poor structuring of courses,...

Two samples of female nursing undergraduates from Egypt (n = 132) and Spain (n = 126) responded to the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety, the Spanish Death Anxiety Inventory, the Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Subscale. Each sample answered the scales in their native language. Alpha reliabilities of the total score scales ranged from 0.65 to 0.91 (Egyptian sample) and between 0.71 and 0.90 (Spanish sample). The...

This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects of education across generations of women.Data used is drawn from the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.The Cox proportional hazard model and linear regression analysis are used to analyse the data.The results show that education has a statistically significant and strong positive effect on a woman's age at first marriage; the effect remaining robust in the presence of...

Abstract This paper studies the effect of drought and pumping discharge on groundwater supplies and marine intrusion. The investigation concerns the Mamora coastal aquifer, northwest of Morocco. A large‐scale groundwater model was established to model (a) the amount of freshwater discharge towards the ocean and the sea water volumes flowing inland as a consequence of the inverse hydraulic gradient, (b) the impact of drought and pumping discharge on the water table level and, as a...

In Nigeria record of incidence and pattern of Head and Neck malignancies is scanty. In our Hospital, there had been no prior published report on this subject.To study the pattern of occurrence of Head and Neck malignancies treated in Obafemi Awolowo university Hospitals Complex, Ile Ife, Nigeria.medical records of patients with histopathologically confirmed head and neck malignancies over a 10 year period (1989--1998) were analyzed.Three hundred and thirteen (313) cases, made up of 184 (59%)...

Salmonella antibodies are known to cross-react with other antigens including those from Escherichia coli. Malaria antigens may also have similar characteristics.To establish antibody levels in malaria patients and controls and to decipher (if any), relationship(s) between significant agglutinin responses to the various antigens as outcome factor and malaria parasitaemia as exposure factor.University of Benin Teaching Hospital and Egor Local Government Area of Edo state, Nigeria, between July...

African American students and former students from a predominantly white institution (PWI) were interviewed to understand their perceptions regarding the impact of their families on their academic achievement and persistence. The characteristics of families that students perceived to support and hinder their academic success at college are described along with implications for improving African American college student retention theory and practice.

Based on the revised social contact theory, correlates of cross‐ethnic friend nomination among 580 African American, 948 Asian‐descent, 860 Latino, and 3986 White adolescents were examined. Socioeconomic and academic disparities between ethnic groups differentiated cross‐ethnic friend nomination between schools for all groups but African Americans. For all groups, cross‐ethnic friend nomination was less likely among students who preferred same‐ethnic friends. Academic orientations were...