N- Power Health Programmes and Youths Empowerment in Southern Cross River State, Nigeria (Published)
This study investigated the N-Power health programmes on Youths Empowerment in Southern Cross River State, Nigeria. One research questions and one hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study, while stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting 485 respondents. A 9 – item questionnaire titled: N-power Health Programmes on Youth Empowerment Questionnaire (NPHPYEQ) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated and the reliability estimate, using Cronbach alpha statistics, was .68. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for the research questions, while the z-test statistic was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that N-power health and N-power Health programmes has significantly promoted Youths empowerment in Southern Cross River State to a great extent. Based on the findings of the study recommendations were made among others that more sensitization programmes should be conducted to expose individuals on the scope of N-power Health Programmes.
Keywords: Empowerment, Health, N-Power, Programmes, Youths