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To determine the prevalence of refractive errors and causes of visual impairment in school children in Enugu State, South-eastern Nigeria.A descriptive cross-sectional, school-based survey in children aged 5-15 years from selected primary and junior secondary schools (public and private) in both urban and rural communities of Enugu State was carried out. Ocular examinations were performed on them according to the Refractive Error in School-age Children (RESC) protocol.A total of 1167...
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coping strategies are specific efforts that individuals use to tolerate or minimize stressful events. Most caregivers´ of children with disabilities must adjust to their social life to cope with the responsibility of caring for a child with disabilities. This study was carried out to assess caregivers´ coping strategies in raising a child with a disability in a resource-poor country.a researcher-administered questionnaire adapted from the standard COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)...
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Reopening schools raise several ethical issues, including safety, privacy, autonomy, vulnerability. Some countries have gradually reopened their schools with explicit guidelines for safety. The safe reopening of schools demands sensitivity to community inequities. We aimed to conduct a rapid review of the strategies adopted in the reopening of schools in some countries amid the Covid-19 and highlight the lessons learned and to consider the feasibility of some of the existing Nigerian...
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The study was conducted to ascertain the influence of social media addiction on time management skills of university students in Uyo Senatorial District. The population of the study comprised all the second year 2018/2019 students in the University of Uyo. This consisted of a total of 5854 students. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 650 students from the 13 Faculties in the University of Uyo. Two instruments - Social Media Addiction Scale and Time Management Inventory -...
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The paper evaluated undergraduate students’ perception of the effectiveness of ICT use in improving teaching and learning in Ekiti State University, Nigeria. Four research questions guided the study and the instrument used was the questionnaire, the research method used was survey. The study came out with the results that there is a preference for ICT use in improving teaching and learning, though costlier than the traditional book sources. It was also discovered that students frequently use...
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Abstract A top-bottom approach where local problems are treated in isolation has proven ineffective in achieving sustainable development. The need for inclusive approaches to managing the demand for arable lands, forest resources, and the problems of resource exploitation and climate change calls for local understanding of these elements’ interrelationship. Understanding the interrelationships among climate change, agriculture, and the ecosystems in different agroecological zones in Nigeria...
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The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescence is important but there is a dearth of this information among developing countries such as Nigeria. To assess the relationship between BMI and HRQoL among healthy schooling adolescents in Southwestern Nigeria.We assessed the relationship between BMI and HRQoL among healthy schooling adolescents in southwestern Nigeria.In a cross-sectional study design, 650 adolescents were selected and...
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SUMMARY This article explores the manner in which climate action at the African regional level protects and promotes children's rights with considerations being had to the principle of intergenerational equity. It establishes that while the concept of intergenerational equity is entrenched in the international and African regional climate change framework for the protection of children, neither the Convention on the Rights of the Child nor the African Children's Charter mentions the concept....
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In this article, we analyze the effect of international remittances on girls’ education in Cameroon. In order to isolate the endogeneity bias, we adopted the approach of instrumental variables on the microeconomic data of the third Cameroonian household survey (ECAM III). The results show that girls have a lower probability of going to school than boys. However, international remittances promote the education of girls (5-25 years old). In addition, this positive effect of remittances is more...
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PTEs measured in Lagos indoor dusts were higher than those reported from other Nigerian cities, and suggest PTE build up in recent years. However, the calculated risks factors were within acceptable limits for both children and adults.
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This study examines the relationships between education, economic growth and environmental quality in Egypt and Morocco. Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach over the period 1990 to 2017 is used to investigate these relationships. The empirical findings show that the variables are cointegrated demonstrating that long-run relationship exists among those variables. In the short run, education has positive effects on amounts of carbon dioxide emissions in both...
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This study examines the relationships between education, economic growth and environmental quality in Egypt and Morocco. Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach over the period 1990 to 2017 is used to investigate these relationships. The empirical findings show that the variables are cointegrated demonstrating that long-run relationship exists among those variables. In the short run, education has positive effects on amounts of carbon dioxide emissions in both...
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The study examined the attitude of secondary school teachers towards teaching sexuality education in Numan Educational Zone of Adamawa State. One research question and three research hypotheses were postulated for the study. This study adopted the descriptive survey research design, with a target population comprising 48 senior secondary schools and 474 senior secondary school teachers in Numan Zone. Twenty schools were selected by simple random sampling technique, while 10 teachers were...