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Education and capacity building in palliative care are greatly needed in Nigeria. Currently, two institutions integrate palliative care into the undergraduate medical curriculum and no post graduate training exists. A team from the University of Lagos in Nigeria and Northwestern University in the US collaborated to design, implement, and evaluate a 12-hour virtual palliative care training program for Nigerian health professionals.This study investigated the impact of the first session of the...

Background: Hearing loss is a major problem in children because of its devastating effect on education and cognitive development. Clinicians rely on pure-tone audiometry (PTA) to determine the types and degrees of hearing loss; however, the test is subjective and cannot determine the cause of the hearing loss.Computed tomography (CT) of the temporal bone is important for evaluating hearing loss, due to its ability to identify bony ear malformations and to examine pathologies of the middle...

Much of the literature on the relationship between South Africans and African migrants in South Africa is awash with discourses of xenophobia and afrophobia. This is notwithstanding significant evidence which suggests that interactions between these groups transcend the notoriety of conflictual relationships. For example, statistics show that despite pervasive xenophobic violence against African migrants in South Africa, the population of international students from African continues to...

The study examined the predictive influence of learning environment factors on senior secondary school students’ non-cognitive values (attitude to school, interest in school and self-concept). A random sample of 965 senior secondary 2(SS2) students was used for the study. Results revealed, among others, that the learning environment factors jointly significantly predicted each of the non-cognitive characteristics of the students. It was, therefore, concluded that the learning environment,...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the disruption of the education system and closure of schools of educational institutions all over the world. To ensure that teaching and learning does not stop during the period, higher education institutions (HEI) in Nigeria adopted emergency remote teaching (ERT) by moving their classes to online and distance education platforms. The expectation is that ERT will be jettisoned for the return of on-campus face-to-face pedagogies in the post COVID-19 ‘new...

This study examined the interplay between emotional intelligence and suicidal tendencies among undergraduates of University of Benin. A non-experimental research design was employed, namely a correlational survey research design. Data were collected from a sample size of 396, utilizing the proportional sampling technique. The instrument used was a structured questionnaire, which comprised of two sections, section A was used for collecting demographic characteristics of the respondents and...

Background: Family planning deficiencies are responsible for high maternal, newborn, and child mortality in Nigeria, and more than half of all death among adult female is linked to maternal death. Aim: To ascertain the predictors of good knowledge, positive attitudes, and ever practice family planning among public secondary school teachers in Enugu East Senatorial District, Nigeria. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional research was carried out among public secondary school teachers aged...

The research investigated the consequence of self-regulated learning on students' academic performance in physics, using selected public co-education schools in Aguata Educational Zone, Anambra State as the research area.The study became necessary as a result of the observed persistent poor performance of the student in Physics in external examinations over the years.The study made use of quasi-experimental research design method.The research information was gathered from the control and...

This chapter examines climate change and variability emergency disaster risks on agricultural food security of the local communities in Africa with a focus on gender equality lens in Uganda. Ugandan women contribute up to 75% of domestic food production and yet they are often overburdened with reproduction, household management, gender-specific discrimination, and adverse climate change effects like agricultural droughts, flash flooding, violent windstorms, or water stress. To ensure...

Effective climate change and disaster policy communication services are vital for enhancing the adaptive resilience capacity of the vulnerable local communities in poor countries like Uganda. This chapter focuses on the effectiveness of the Ugandan national climate change and disaster policy information communication strategies in addressing national flooding disaster risks, highlights the recent trends of knowledge based responses to climate change induced floods, assesses the impact of the...

This study investigated parents' roles and the creative potentials of primary school pupils in Ekiti State, Nigeria.The study adopted descriptive research of the survey type.The population consisted of all the primary school pupils in Ekiti State, Nigeria.A purposive random sampling technique was used to select a total of three hundred and fifty (350) respondents from Ado Local Government (the state capital).The instrument used for data collection for the study was a self-designed...

AbstractThe adjustment problem of students is an issue of global concern and militates against the effective attainment of learning outcomes. Efforts made so far in Nigeria to curb it have not been successful. This article thus examines the influence of anxiety disorder on school adjustment among secondary school students. A survey method was adopted for the study. Five hundred twenty six students drawn from the population of junior secondary school students (n = 8,829) were used for the...

Introduction: climate change is a global public health problem that has affected the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of Nigerian people. We conducted this study to assess community perception and adaptation strategies to climate change in Benue State to contribute to the burden of knowledge, policy change, and awareness programs.

To determine the burden and quality of life of caregivers of stroke survivors with cognitive impairment in selected healthcare facilities in Anambra State, Nigeria.This was a cross-sectional survey using the World Health Organization QOL-BREF and Caregiver Strain Index (CSI) as instruments. Descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage counts, mean and standard deviation were used to summarize the socio-demographics. Spearman's ranked order correlation; Mann-Whitney U test assessed the...

Hospitality has been established as a profession that is better described than defined. Scholars agree on the skills and attributes that professionals need to succeed in the industry, some of which are courtesy, respectfulness, friendliness, being accommodating and tolerance (Healey & Sybertz, 1996). These skills and attributes are also considered to be virtues which are exhibited and taught in families, and schools, in different communities of the world (Gathogo, 2006, 2008, 2013; Mbiti,...

Carbon farming, particularly soil carbon climate strategies, has emerged as a popular tool in addressing climate change and variability in worldwide agriculture. Yet, there is a paucity of evidence on its application, and even more so, limited evidence exists on the welfare impacts in developing countries, where the negative impacts of climate change and variability remain disproportionately higher. This paper presents the results of a study on biochar and compost production training and its...

Introduction: Diaphragmatic injuries may be associated with thoracoabdominal blunt or penetrating traumas.The diagnosis is often delayed, despite the availability of several medical imaging modalities.The surgical management remains controversial, in terms of the choice of surgical approach and the surgical repair technique.Aim: To evaluate the surgical management experience of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture in our institution over a ten-year period in the local setting of a tertiary...

Current practice for chemotherapy in most oncology departments is the use of dedicated venous access for the continuous and frequent delivery of drugs, fluids and blood products, and the monitoring of the effects of treatment. The frequent venipuncture of peripheral veins is associated with various complications and discomfort to the patients. Permanent central venous access is therefore very important. Totally Implantable Vascular Access Device (TIVAD) is a type of central venous access...

As with many developing countries, one of Nigeria’s major challenges to socio-economic development is climate change. This article examines the effects of climate change on the livelihood activities of the urban poor in Ibadan, Nigeria. Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, the research relied essentially on primary data. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain primary data from 481 purposively selected urban residents engaging in different livelihood activities. Data collected...