ABSTRACT Diabetes is a chronic life- long illness that affects the quality of life, requiring close monitoring and control. Diabetics have high risk for high economic burden (direct and indirect health costs) and catastrophic expenditure where healthcare costs are paid out of pocket. This study determined the economic burden and assessed the payment strategies and […]
ABSTRACT The Purpose of this study was to examine the coping strategies utilized by parents who have physically or mentally challenged children in Enugu Urban. The study surveyed 154 consenting parents who have children enrolled in Therapeutic Day Care Center Enugu and Government School for the Deaf and Dumb Ogbete Coal Camp, Enugu using descriptive […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Conflict is a normal part of any healthy relationship (George, 2011). After all, two people cannot be expected to agree on everything, all the time. Although there is no universal definition of conflict (Kelly, 2006; Patton, 2014), it can be described as a process in which one party […]
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to comparatively assess patients’ and nurses’ perceptions of nurse caring behaviours in Jos University Teaching hospital (JUTH) and Plateau State Specialist Hospital (PSSH) Jos. A cross-sectional descriptive survey design was employed to study 332 patients and nurses. No sampling was done as all the subjects who met the […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Pregnancy is a time of excitement, anticipation and planning interspersed with periods of anxiety, fear and stress all of which are quite normal (Tiran, 2010). Generally, expectant mothers spend the early pregnancy coping with various physiological discomforts like early morning sickness and backache while trying to continue with […]
CAREGIVERS KNOWLEDGE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RELAPSE IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS AT FEDERAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL NEW HAVEN ENUGU STATE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Schizophrenia the most common type of mental illness is a chronic and disabling psychiatric illness that affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. It is […]
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS AND PRACTICE OF BREAST SELF EXAMINATION AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN UMUOWA, ORLU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IMO STATE ABSTRACT Breast cancer is said to be the commonest cancer and the most lethal malignancy in women across the world. Most of the cases are brought late to the hospital when the conditions are severe […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic progressive metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose `mainly due to absolute or relative lack of a hormone known as insulin (Shrivastava and Ramasamy, 2013). The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2012) defined it as a group of diseases characterized […]
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the attitude and practice of female health workers towards cervical cancer screening (CCS) in the university of Port Harcourt teaching hospital (UPTH), Rivers state. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample size of 352 was used for the study. This sample […]
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN WOMEN’S STATUS AND USE OF MATERNAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES IN NANDO, ANAMBRA EAST L.G.A, ANAMBRA STATE ABSTRACT The study examined the association between women’s status and utilisation of maternal health care services of primary health care centres in Nando, in Nando, Anambra east L.G.A of Anambra State. Five objectives […]