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Burnout is a well-recognized phenomenon that may manifest with feelings of stress, fatigue, or exhaustion. It is a common and emerging problem among healthcare workers. Medical students may be at increased risk of burnout given the rigorous nature of their training. However, there is a paucity of data on the burden of burnout among medical students in Africa.This study aimed to determine the prevalence of burnout, as assessed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (MBI-SS) as...

It is widely believed that correctional education programs can significantly reduce crime and recidivism rates by rehabilitating prisoners into productive and law-abiding citizens. Several studies on correctional education focus on statistically measuring the impact of correctional education programs on recidivism and employment rates among ex-prisoners. However, little is known about how prisoners themselves perceive and experience such programs during incarceration. This qualitative study...

Investigating Integrative and Instrumental Motivation and Vocabulary Learning among Third Year English as a Foreign Language Secondary School Students at Batna Province, Algeria

Kenya has ratified most international treaties that protect the right to education, which form part of the country’s laws. The Constitution of Kenya, in Article 53 (1) (b) state that every child has a right to free and compulsory basic education and Article 55 (a) the State shall take measures, including affirmative action programmes, to ensure that the youth access relevant education and training. Minorities and marginalized groups under Article 56 (b) have a right to be provided with...

A Research Thesis Submitted in Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Physical Education, Exercise & Sports Science) in the School of Public Health and Applied Human Sciences, Kenyatta University , June 2021.

Employees play a key role in the achievement of organizations’ objectives and thus every organization endeavors to ensure employee retention. However, as the organization endeavors to do this, they are faced with the challenge of employees’ turnover intentions. Although it has been suggested that Human Resource Management (HRM) practices may affect employees’ turnover intentions, the extent of this effect has been inconsistent in previous studies. Moreover, literature on HRM practices and...

The study examined the effectiveness and shortfalls of the school infrastructure policy governance system in Somaliland.The study was a cross-sectional survey, using mixed methods of inquiry.The target population was 920 headteachers and 82 DEOs.The sample was 257 headteachers and 22 DEOs.Multistage sampling was used.Purposive sampling was used to sample regions.Stratified random sampling was used to sample headteachers and simple random sampling to sample DEOs from the sampled regions.Pilot...

Background HIV Routine testing to all hospital attendants offers testing to all patients irrespective of their presenting illness even if it has nothing to do with HIV. This approach differs from voluntary counselling and testing, which is client-initiated. Adolescents and young adults especially those in colleges are a sexually active group of people which makes them prone to HIV infection. Therefore, there was need to conduct this study to determine the perception of students on routine...

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to analyse the effectiveness of the delivery of learning materials to fourth year real estate class. This was based on the research problem derived from the literature that low retention of learning materials by learners is attributed to the challenges that human beings face in absorbing what they have learnt through listening. The study wanted to establish if what students learn through listening, reading, visualisation and demonstration can be...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 90% of people worldwide breathed polluted air in 2014 that exceeded the WHO limit of 10 μgm−3. Ambient air pollution was responsible for 4.2 million premature deaths in 2016 globally. Lancet noted that 92% of deaths associated with pollution is in developing countries among marginalized groups, particularly women and children. In Tanzania almost one fifth (19%) of annual deaths were associated with impacts of pollution-related diseases,...

Disasters pose a great danger to societies due to the impact on various aspects of life such as social, educational, economics which calls to find better post-disaster solutions. This paper is highlighting the war in Syria as one of the human-made disasters that threaten Syrian’s children present and future. Education is an essential factor in terms of societies’ recovery and to children's recovery process and overcoming the trauma of war. Providing post-disaster school building is an...

Background: Reduction in child malnutrition is one of the key components of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. National-level monitoring efforts are very useful for closing inequalities in the burden of stunting, but they usually mask huge sub-national variations, making targeting of the most affected population groups in specific locations difficult. In this study, we examine the geographical variation of stunting at the sub-national county-level in Kenya, to highlight the importance...

Exposure to indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking with solid fuels affects 2.8 billion people in developing countries, including children and pregnant women. It also increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as low birthweight. This review aims to examine the relationship of IAP with low birthweight.A systematic literature search was performed using PubMed, CINAHL, global health and Google Scholar electronic databases. Data analysis was done using STATA Version 14. The...

Climate change and its global impact on all people, especially the marginalized communities, is widely recognized as the biggest crisis of our time. It is a context that invites all subjects and disciplines to bring their resources in diagnosing the problem and seeking the healing of the Earth. The African continent, especially its women, constitute the subalterns of global climate crisis. Can they speak? If they speak, can they be heard? Both the Earth and the Africa have been identified...

Peace building in post was countries have posed several challenges to an extent that the former war-torn countries stand the probability of relapsing into conflict if the very reasons for which they went to war were not addressed.Often and again, what characterizes negotiation and mediation skills to end a conflict are most times supply driven from the perspectives of the international community.In very rare circumstances, the parties to the conflict are involved in developing the framework...

Aim: Children and adolescents are the most affected by wars. They are also at higher risk for psychiatric disorders. However, as in all disadvantaged groups, the reasons for applying to psychiatry departments in refugees may differ from the local population. So we aimed to investigate reasons for applying to psychiatry department, the sociodemographic characteristics, presence of psychopathologies, prescriptions and treatment compliance of child and adolescent Syrian refugees.Materials and...

Abstract The peripartum cardiomyopathy in Nigeria (PEACE) registry was set up to primarily determine the burden and demographic, clinical characteristics, myocardial remodeling, and survival of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) in Nigeria. It is the largest study on PPCM in Africa. Four hundred six well-characterized PPCM patients were consecutively recruited from 22 sites between June 2017 and March 2018, but only 14 centers participated in the longitudinal arm, which followed-up 244...

The study was the effect of climate change on vegetable farmers in their pest control decisions (Case study Sierra Leone (Bombali District) and Turkey (Beypazari District).With such the specific objectives were; to identify the new situation caused by climate change in pest control activities, to identify the factors affecting farmer decisions making process on pest control, and also the Perception of vegetable farmers on the causes of climate change in pest control activities.Purposively...