Effect of Health Education Intervention Programme on Awareness of Danger Signs in Childhood Illnesses (Under-Five) Among Caregivers in Kaduna State, Nigeria (Published)
The study assesses the effect of health education intervention programme on awareness of danger signs in childhood illnesses (Under-Five Children) among caregivers in Kaduna State. Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study, five research questions were raised while five hypotheses were formulated and tested to guide the study. Quasi-experimental of pre-test and post-test experimental and control groups was adopted for this study. The population of the study consist of 19,684 of the entire caregivers in Kaduna State. The sample size of this study is two hundred (200) participants selected by using multi-stage sampling techniques. The instrument for data collection for the study is researcher’s developed questionnaire. Inferential statistic of paired sample t-test was used to test the formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding indicated that there is significance awareness of danger signs in childhood illnesses (Under-Five Children) among caregivers in Kaduna state, Nigeria after health education intervention programme (t-23.07, df: 99; P=.000); and there is significant difference between the experimental and control group after health education intervention programme based on their awareness of danger signs in childhood illnesses (t=-15.316, df: 198; (P=.000). Based on the findings of the study it was concluded that health education intervention programme improves awareness of danger signs in childhood illnesses (Under-Five Children) among caregivers in Kaduna state, Nigeria. This is because the effect of health education intervention programme was significant. It was therefore recommended among others that the Kaduna State Ministry of Health should work with all the healthcare facilities to promote that health education intervention programme on knowledge of danger signs in childhood illnesses and should be carried out during ANC visits.
Keywords: Effect, and under-five, awareness, childhood illnesses, danger signs, health education intervention programme
Effect of inadequate Human Resources in Government: A Case Study of Ministry of Health (Published)
This research work focuses on the effect of inadequate human resources on the performance of government establishment a case study of health sector. The objectives are to determine the causes of this inadequacy of human resources, the effects of the inadequacy and what could be done to improve the human resources of government establishment especially in health sector. The research is an outcome of an intensive research. In the cause of this research, the researcher adopted descriptive method of analysis with frequency count and chi-square statistical instrument, the results shows that specialist doctors were grossly inadequate couple well trained nurse while the para-medical and nonmedical were averagely adequate compared to limited ratio of medical staff available in the sector, poor financial aids was discover to be the major causes inadequacy coupled with time and facilities required to train medical staffs in schools, several policy recommendation were made based on the findings of the results government should as a matter of urgency and sensitivity of the sector employ more qualified medical staffs in other to eradicate the hazardous effect of inadequacy in health sector also private sector should be encourage to partake in public health issues in the country.
Keywords: Effect, Government, Human Resources, Inadequate