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Background Several community studies in Nigeria of attitudes towards mental illness suggest low knowledge and a deep-seated negative attitude about the illness . Little is known about the effect of education in changing these rather negative views. Aims To determine the effects of exposure to a 13 week course in Abnormal Psychology on a follow-up assessment of knowledge and attitudes of undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria towards mental illness. Method All 140...

This paper is a brief portrayal of the state of housing policies and programmes in South Africa, as well as the role of the design professional in the context and teaching of housing at the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria. It attempts to relate the issues to some of the themes of the conference: policy making, architectural design and urban principles, socioeconomic concerns, environmental, social and cultural sustainability and affordability. While South Africa has had...

This book provides easy-to-use tools for assessing sanitation, water supply and handwashing facilities in primary schools in Africa so that appropriate decisions can be made about sanitation improvements. It also presents guidelines for rehabilitating or decommissioning existing latrines; for choosing the right type of latrine where new facilities are required; for siting latrines appropriately within a school compound; and for the operation and maintenance of these facilities. A number of...

Student's migration, like any other migration involves a continuous process of interaction through which members of different social and cultural background come in contact with one another and together, with the new socio-cultural situations. In the University of Pune, students of different social, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds from different continents and countries come in search for academic knowledge. This paper about African students in Pune city, deals with their...

Trauma has been the major indication for limb amputation in almost all studies emanating from the different parts of Nigeria, except in Maiduguri. Earlier studies from this part of the country recorded malignancy as the leading indication for amputation. There is need to review the current pattern of causes. The aim of this study is to ascertain the current indications for amputation in the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and compare the findings with similar studies conducted in...

This study examined the pattern of Internet use by undergraduate students at the University of Lagos, Main Campus, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria. It revealed that the level of Internet use is low among undergraduate students from both the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Law. It also revealed that though majority of the students browse the Internet many of them cannot design search strategies. However, the study showed that internet use has very high impact on the academic/career related...

This paper investigated computer training and professional library activities in Nigeria. Stratified quota sampling technique coupled with questionnaire method was used for data collection. There were 260 subjects from the libraries in the South-West Nigeria out of which 245 responded and 213 copies of their questionnaire were used for analysis. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire used for data collection was a = 0.82 using test-retest method. The study found that there was no...

This study was carried out to examine awareness and use of different sources of information for course-work and research by students of the Open University of Tanzania and those of Sokoine University of Agriculture. Specifically, the study sought to understand students use of the information sources, why they visited the university library, the type of assistance they had received in using the library as well as the type of instruction they would like to receive in the future. A...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a huge concern with increasing epidemic proportions The consequences are devastating in developing countries particularly in large areas of southeast Asia and sub Saharan Africa including decrease in life-expectancy, huge loss of manpower and a heavy economic and social burden. Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit harder by HIV/AIDS pandemic than any other region of the world At the end of 2006, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...

Umbilical cord is a clinical condition that calls for emergency decision making and action especially with a live and mature fetus. The objective of this study is to determine, fetal outcome and how various factors influence it.This is a 12 1/2 year retrospective study of all 34 fetuses who suffered from cord prolapse at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital.There were 34 cases of cord prolapse, 23 perinatal deaths and a perinatal mortality rate of 67.64%. About 55% of babies of...

This study was aimed at determining the perception of the medical students of a relatively new medical school in Nigeria about the teaching of Pharmacology, the best way of learning and retaining the subject. Suggestions on the ways of making pharmacology more interesting to them were also sought.A total of forty eight 400 level medical students of the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), who were due to write 2nd Professional M.B; B.S degree examinations in 2007 and 26...

Proper and adequate pharmacovigilance is lacking in children's drug therapy, especially in developing countries. Therefore these children are at risk of developing adverse reactions to drugs as a result of medication errors. Having a better understanding of the types of error in a teaching hospital would be an important step toward quality improvement in children drug therapy.This study was aimed at identifying the medication errors most frequently committed in the paediatric outpatient...

Increasing sexual networking among university students exposes them to the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS. Despite this, the level of condom use and sexual abstinence is low.The objective of the study was to describe sexual behavior and identify predictors of condom use among students in a Nigerian university.A cross sectional survey was conducted using self-administered questionnaires among 404 students of the Federal university of Technology, Minna in...

There has been some increase in the proportion of Neural Tube Defects (NTD) admitted in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital recently. Fora largely preventable birth defect, this increase is both unnecessary and unacceptable. This study was undertaken to describe the admission patterns and outcome of neural tube defects in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.A retrospective study of babies with neural tube defects who were admitted into Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of...

University students in the period following independence were a transitory social group, who held well-founded expectations of rewarding and high-status employ- ment after graduation. In the 1970s many of these assurances began to erode as countries that had attempted to implement state-led development faced interna- tional recession and internal corruption and decay. State funding of higher educa- tion by the late 1970s was being targeted for restructuring by the World Bank and the...

Papua New Guinea has experienced a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Christian Churches have played a vital role in responding to HIV, through community support, encouragement and social change. Strong, effective Church leadership can help create safe environments of care and support for those infected and for prevention of HIV. Method A series of trainings in capacity development for clergy were undertaken by the National AIDS Council Secretariat (NACS)/National HIV/AIDS Support Project...

Urinary bladder disturbances are frequent in the elderly population but the responsible mechanisms are poorly understood. This study evaluates the effects of aging on detrusor myogenic contractile responses and the impact of melatonin treatment. The contractility of bladder strips from adult, aged and melatonin-treated guinea pigs was evaluated by isometric tension recordings. Cytoplasmatic calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) was estimated by epifluorescence microscopy of fura-2-loaded...

This study aims to measure the prevalence of smoking and identify the psychosocial factors associated with it among students in secondary schools in Gabon. This cross-sectional descriptive study collected information by a self-administered questionnaire, completed by 4833 students aged 14 to 22 years. The results show that 10.9% of these young people are current smokers and that the risk of smoking is highest among males and increases with age. Poor school performance and poor family...