Browsing by Author "Durojaye, O.A"

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    Impact of Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Utilization of Postnatal Care Services among Women in Edu Loca lGovernment of Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Journal of Basic and Clinical Reproductive Sciences., 2017) Jibril, N.U; Garba, N.S; Afolayan, J.O; Rejuaro, F.M; Aliyu, U; Durojaye, O.A
    Background: This study examined the impact of health education intervention (HEI) on the knowledge and utilization of postnatal care services among women in Edu, Nigeria. Methods: A quasi-experimental research design using pre-test and post-test control group to examine impact of HEI among women. Researchers-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. Intervention: One hundred and twenty women were exposed to ten weeks health education intervention; sixty (n=60) experimental group exposed to postnatal care services lectures and sixty (n=60) control group were exposed to HIV/AIDS prevention lectures. The results were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics to answer research question and test null hypothesis at 0.05 significant levels. Results: The findings showed an improvement from pre intervention mean scores of 64.26 to post intervention scores of 98.15 for the experimental group against 68.88 post intervention mean score of control group. While, the pre intervention mean score of utilization was 56.67 compared with post intervention mean scores of 92.91 for the experimental group and 61.04 for the control group utilization This showed positive impact of health education intervention on knowledge and willingness of women of childbearing age to utilize postnatal care services in Edu LGA. Conclusion: Study concluded that, health education intervention had positive impact on knowledge and willingness of WCA to utilize postnatal care, and the knowledge gained need to be sustained to improve WCA health seeking behaviour in the communities of Edu LGA.
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    Resilience and its relatedness to Mental Distress among Nursing Students in a Nigerian Tertiary Educational Institution
    (Iman Medical Journal, 2018) Olorukooba, H.O; Afolayan, J.A; Jibril, N.U; Olubiyi, S.K; Imam, A.A; Durojaye, O.A
    Background: process of nursing education has been described to be stressful associated with mental distress and unwellness. The cost of this has been exorbitant on the individual, significant others and the society at large. Resilience has been identified as one of the means to to resolved the trend. base on this premise, the study aimed to investigate into Resilience and its relatedness to Mental Distress among Nursing Students in a Nigerian Tertiary Educational Institution. Methodology: data was cross-sectionally collected from 66 nursing students in their 2 to 5 years of their studies. Data on the participants socio-demographic, their resilience characteristics, presence of symptoms of mental distress, anxiety and depression, level o social support and mindfullness practices. Results: the participants mean age was 21.75 years (SD=3.2) and are predominantly females (89.60%).majority of them have mental unwellness (i.e. cases on GHQ.12, HADS-depression subscale and HADS-anxiety subscale respectively. 78.8%, 87.9% and 92.0%) with good resilience characteristics (50.3%), moderate social supports(57.8%), and good mindfullness practices (51.5%). Resilience was moderately and significantly related to depressive symptoms and mindfullness practices. Conclusion: Mental distress is common among undergraduate nursing students and that distress was more among resilience students despite their noted good mindfullness practices. it was recomended that a way to revers this to boost participants resilience with benefit of improving academic performance and limiting future professional burnout.