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Background: University students engage in heavy alcohol consumption and one factor that facilitates their alcohol use is alcohol marketing. Diverse sophisticated sales promotion strategies are used by multinational alcohol industries in Nigeria, and no policies to regulate alcohol promotion exist. This study explores the marketing strategy of using female students to promote beer in bars, nightclubs and hotels and how it facilitates alcohol use amongst students. Methods: Thirty-one in-depth...

Research indicates the primary difference between strong and weak readers is their phonemic awareness skills. However, there is no consensus regarding which specific components of phonemic awareness contribute most robustly to reading comprehension. In this study, the relationship among sound blending, sound segmentation, and reading comprehension is investigated. A total of 84 African American and two multiethnic 1st- through 4th-grade students attending an inner-city charter school...

Research consistently demonstrates that children with developmental disabilities exhibit motor skill deficits, but motor skill interventions can positively affect motor abilities and other areas of development. These findings have particular relevance for children with disabilities in developing countries, where there is limited access to early intervention and education. In these settings, motor skill interventions may provide a means to address delays in development and positively affect...

Within the context of sexuality education as an HIV prevention strategy, much attention has been given to what content should be taught and the effectiveness of that content in achieving desired goals. While some research has problematised how curricular content is understood or taken-up, what remains largely unquestioned is a pedagogical imaginary of knowledge as a fixed and stable object that can be transmitted from teacher to learner. This paper builds on feminist readings of pedagogy,...

Similar to other science subjects, basic technology recorded poor secondary school students’ performance both in national and international examination. Furthermore, there are large variations in performances of Nigerian students that raise concerns. These differences in performance may be caused by multiple factors that need to be identified. The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence students’ performance in basic technology. Four research questions guided the study...

This paper provides an overview of the sub-field of private higher education in Mozambique. Private higher education in Mozambique emerged in the mid-1990s following the liberalisation of the economy. Since its inception, higher education in Mozambique had always been public, in line with the socialist ideology of the first Mozambican governments after the country’s independence in 1975. Methodologically, the paper uses a comprehensive literature review, policy document analysis and...

In order to increase patient active engagement during patient–provider interactions, we developed and implemented patient training sessions in four antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics in Namibia using a “Patient Empowerment” training curriculum. We examined the impact of these trainings on patient–provider interactions after the intervention. We tested the effectiveness of the intervention using a randomized parallel group design, with half of the 589 enrolled patients randomly assigned to...

Background: Dental anxiety has been associated with several negative effects on patients and communities’ oral health. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and factors associated with dental anxiety among primary school teachers in Ngara district, Tanzania.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study utilized self-administered questionnaire to collect socio-demographic and behavioural details. A Kiswahili version of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was used to...

Results All components of the training program are organized and delivered by RMH staff, the clinical mentor provided adjunct support only. Staff who trained together practiced with greater collaboration during actual resuscitation events and were more likely to initiate BLS if peer support was present. An increase in the number of admissions and transfers to the Intensive Care Unit were noted due to successful resuscitations.

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B (HB) is a serious global public health problem that put health professionals particularly at risk. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) among Biomedical Students of African descent attending Usmanu Danfodi yo University Sokoto in North-Western Nigeria. METHODS: The Onsite HBsAg (CTK Biotech, USA) was used to detect the presence of hepatitis B surface antigen. RESULTS: We tested 186...

International scholarships for higher education are a large component of foreign aid in many high-income countries, including Australia. The aims for Australian scholarships awarded to African students are to achieve development in Africa and advance the influence of Australia. However, well-articulated theories of change that define how scholarships are linked to these and other outcomes are not available in the literature. In order to address this gap, the authors explore the perspectives...

This paper examines “the computer/ICT as an essential component of the school and its relevant to the management of higher education in Nigeria. The paper discusses how computer has become one of the basic building b locks of modern society. Noting how developed nations of the world have considered computer understanding as the basic skill and also part of the core of education. The paper discusses concepts of computer, ICT, school plant and management. The paper contains that computer is a...

Introduction Epistemological aesthetics like philosophical aesthetics harbors numerous issues and arguments most of which often lack consensual agreement. The plausible reason for this is not un connected with the way the aesthetic permeates almost all aspects of human life and knowledge. It is this plethora of ideas, argument and issues as was noted elsewhere (Aghaosa, 2013), not only make aesthetic and epistemological aesthetics not only a mine field of a arguments but also an interesting...

This is a report of a cluster randomized clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of a church-based educational intervention aimed at improving African Americans’ (AA) participation in clinical trials. Two hundred and twenty-one AA subjects ages ≥50 years from six predominantly AA churches were randomized to intervention or control condition. The intervention included three educational sessions about clinical trials and health disparities; control participants completed questionnaires....