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Item Pain Experience and Coping Strategies Employed by Women in Labor in a Secondary Health Facility in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.(Texila American University, 2022) Onasoga, O.A; Aluko, J.O; Olorukooba, H.O; Hamzat, D. R.Labour pain experience is distinctive and complex, and women use various coping strategies to cope with it. Hence, this study attempted to explore pain experience and coping strategies employed by women in labor in a secondary health facility in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. A qualitative exploratory research design was used, and a purposive sampling technique was used to select a total of ten (10) mothers who delivered within 48hours in the healthcare facility. A total of three FGD sessions were conducted, each had between 3 and 4 participants. The semi-structured interview guide was used for data collection, and the data were analyzed using content analysis. The women who participated in this study were between 20 and 42years of age, and they perceived labour pain differently. Some of the women described labour pain as very painful; others said the pain is normal, while some said the pain cannot be compared with anything. The study revealed that younger women who are primiparous perceived labor pain as more severe than the multiparous women. All the participants said that birth information and instructions received from the midwives, as well as the presence of caring midwives, help to relieve labour pains and consequently influence their pain experience(s) positively. The coping strategies used varied among participants, and deep breathing techniques, relaxation, and vertical positions were the major coping strategies used. Therefore, the provision of adequate labour information on coping strategies and the presence of caring midwives influenced the labour experience(s) positively.Item Perception and Satisfaction with Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) among Undergraduate Nursing Students In Ilorin, Kwara State(Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin., 2021) Onasoga, O.A; Olorukooba, H.O; Shaibu, N.The Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is an innovative evaluation method that is often used for assessing health sciences and nursing students’ clinical skills. The OSCE consist of a scenario based assessment in which a student is required to demonstrate safe assessment and management of certain skills. This study was designed to assess perception and satisfaction with objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) among undergraduate nursing students in Ilorin, Kwara State. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was used for this study; purposive sampling technique was use to select 133 respondents from the study population who met the inclusion criteria. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data and there was 100% response rate. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentages. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents had positive perception and were satisfied with OSCE. Therefore, it was recommended that nurse educators and clinicians need to intensify effort on training of students in OSCE and provide modification where necessary to enhance nursing students’ competencies and performanceItem 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.ABackground: 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.