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Item Awareness of Health Seeking Behaviour of Postpartum Mental Illness Among Pregnant Women Attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria Antenatal Clinic(Department of Health promotion and Environmental Health Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, 2016) Olubiyi, S.K; Issa, B.A.; Laitan, O.L.; Onasoga, O.A.; Abubakar, I.; Ibrahim, HMental health problems have adverse effects on a woman’s obstetrical outcome. Hence, the aim of the study was to assess the awareness of health seeking behaviour of postpartum mental illness among pregnant women attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria antenatal clinic. A research design of cross sectional descriptive study was used with a population of two hundred and forty (240) consecutive pregnant women receiving antenatal care in ABUTH, Zaria. A structured, self administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used with SPSS version 16 to analyze the data generated at 5% level of significance. Majority of the women, 142(59.2%), had good awareness of postpartum mental illness, 184(76.7%) of the respondents had a poor health seeking behavior towards the disorder. There was significant relationship found between awareness of postpartum mental illness and health seeking behavior for the disorder. Government at all levels of health care should scale up public awareness on postpartum mental illness with improved health education on mental healthcare centers. Also, the establishment of mental health facilities in areas strategically close to the vast majority of the population they are meant to serve will assist in controlling the menace of postpartum mental illness.Item Pattern of Computer Usage and Visual Acuity Among Staff of the National Open University of Nigeria(Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Abuja, 2018) Olubiyi, S.K.; Agbede, O.O.; Okesina, B; Kayode, O.O.; Onasoga, O.A.Computerized jobs are more sedentary as it requires more cognitive processing and mental attention. Besides, to put computers into operation for many tasks in tandem means that operator would necessarily sit before visual display terminal of computers screen demands that the user work within a very restricted posture range. This could have deteriorative effects on the eyes. Hence this study investigated the influence the pattern / manner of computer use in association with visual acuity among (National Open University of Nigeria) NOUN staff. The study was a cross-sectional survey which utilized multi-stage sampling method to recruit 297 staff from selected 17 NOUN Study Centres. A self-administered and structured questionnaire was used to obtain information for the study. Snellen’s test was used to observe visual acuity among the respondents. Findings from the study revealed that prolonged “daily” computer use is associated with less desirable visual acuity (p<0.05). Likewise, the longer the hours spent on daily computer use, the lesser the desirable visual acuity (p<0.05). It is, however, recommended that periodic eye examination and public health campaign should be adopted as preventive strategies in order to maintain vision integrity among computer users