Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no2.2023.pg33.41
Joseph C. Chieke, Luke C. Ogbaka, Ogochukwu K. Okunna
The paper is aimed at reducing pre-operative anxiety in adult patients. Pre-operative anxiety is the fear or anxiety experienced by patient preparing for surgery. The study was a descriptive survey research design. It was guided by one research question. The population of the study was 238 doctors and nurses working in the surgical wards of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital Amaku, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. The entire population was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire. The instrument was validated by two experts from the Department of Adult and Continuing Education and Science Education respectively, all from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Data collected were analysed using Mean statistics and Standard deviation. The findings of the study show that all the twelve items except two were accepted as strategies for reducing pre-operative anxiety of adult patients. The respondents disagreed with” helping patient to accept that he is anxious”(2.48) and” massaging of patients hand before surgery” (2.49) ,as strategies for reducing anxiety. Based on the findings, it was recommended that surgical teams should take it, as a matter of duty, to explain to patient every bits of procedure they want to carry out on a patient
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no2.2023.pg14.25
Justine Akunke Adie
Although both researchers and practitioners are aware that an employee's performance changes during the course of a work, this personal variable and job performance variability is poorly understood and is frequently viewed as error. In the current study, which aimed to investigate the significant influence of personal variable on health workers job performance. Three objectives, research questions and hypothesis was raised for the study. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 118 health workers that was used for the study. The result of the findings was that gender, years of experience and health workers highest educational significantly influenced the health workers job performance. In conclusion, health workers employee who wish to have maximum performance from the staffs should make sure to employ staffs with the right qualification. Finally it was recommended that health workers should try as much as possible to work on the personal factors so as to be very productive in their place of work or assignment. Key words: personal variables, job performance, health workers.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no2.2023.pg42.60
Rex Oforitse Aruofor, Daniel Risiagbon Ogbeide
With the emergence of the Bola Tinubu administration on May 29, 2023 in Nigeria, one of the first policies embarked upon was the removal of fuel subsidy and subsequent increase of domestic pump price of petrol to an average of N600.00/liter. This has resulted in massive hue and cry on the social media, where some have alleged that the fuel subsidy is indeed a lie, while others have insinuated and alleged that the recent increase of the pump price of petrol is at the instance of the advice by World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, it is believed that Government exists to make policies for the common good of the people it governs and to manage the satisfaction of the Political, Economic and Social concerns of the economy. Since governance has to do with the people and their welfare, it requires a good leader who is capable of listening to the people in addition to being aided by capable institutions with expertise and capacity with well trained personnel. Is this the case in Nigeria? It is believed that extant policy advice to developing economies by International organizations are based on quantitative tools and paradigms that are either subjective or are partial in their analysis and therefore their prescriptions become counter-productive and self-defeating. This study is a bold attempt to use the total differential systems modeling approach (ecostatometrics) to analyze the true consequences and implications of the new policy of domestic petrol pump price increase on the Nigerian economy as a whole. The result is that the whole economy will be depressed given the two options considered. Output of all sectors will fall and all incomes and consumption will also fall. Inflation will be astronomical and the economy will not grow due to the policy and many Nigerians may die as a result. To ameliorate the situation, Government should embark on massive investments, build
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no2.2023.pg26.32
Blessing U. Okoh, John Friday Mordi
Nigeria as a nation over the years has continued to crave for Human Capital Development. This is because the Development of Human Capital is critical for the Economic Growth and Sustainable Development of any nation. Since it is the Human person who spearheads any developmental strive of any nation, the need for the Development of Human Capital is indispensable, using the tools of analysis, the paper submitted that religion could serve as a tool for Human capital development in the Contemporary Nigerian Society, because as an institution, it has the potential train and equip the Human person as the agent of Development. It further analyses the possible ways Religion can be harnessed to promote Human Capital Development to include moral instructions, sermons, ethical teachings, training of clergy and religious functionaries, establishment of schools, and through healthcare delivery. The paper concludes that if Religion is given its proper place, it would fulfill this sublime role of developing the Human Capital. It proffers some practical suggestions that would help Nigeria as a nation achieve the target of Human Capital Development. These suggestions are taken as recommendations. Religion for the purpose of this study refers to Christianity, Islam and African traditional Religion.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no2.2023.pg1.13
Asukwo Sunday Nseabasi
Gender equity in education generates a push force that accelerates progress across sectors and goals; thus national development. Gender equality constitutes central position in both national and international programmes as an accelerator for achieving development. Women’s place in national development appears subordinated. Thus, this study examined gender equity in education in Nigeria and the impact on national development. Specifically, the study sought to determine the degree of women access to education, ascertain the impact of women education on socio-economic development determine the factors that constitute barriers to women education in Nigeria, the consequences of low women access to education and benefits of gender equity and women in education. The study discovered that educated women serve as stabilizing factor in national development and recommended ‘cultural rebirth, smart economic, new education content and soft competition technique’ as the approach that will grant women the needed equity in national development in Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no1.2023.pg42.48
Ifeanyi Francis Ikedimma, Friday Oko Orji, Getrude Chinonso Ezema, Mercy Obianuju Nwogbo, Agatha Nkechi Onwumbiko
The study investigated relationship between principals’ idealised influence and teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools in Anambra State. The study was guided by one research question and one null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research design for the study was a correlational research design. The population of the study consist of 4,946 teachers in public secondary schools in Anambra state. Multi-state sampling procedure was used to draw 531 teachers as sample for the study. Two instruments were used for data collection namely: Transformational leadership questionnaire (TLQ), and Teacher’s job satisfaction Questionnaire (TJSQ). The instruments were validated by three experts. Reliability of the instruments was established using Cronbach Alpha method. Reliability coefficient obtained from TLQ yielded coefficient of 0.84 and TCQ yielded 0.96. Pearson Product Moment coefficient correlation was used to analyze data and test the hypotheses. The findings of this study showed a moderate positive relationship between principals’ idealised influence and teachers’ job satisfaction. There was significant relationship between principals’ idealised influence and teachers’ job satisfaction. It was concluded that principals’ idealised influence positively influence teachers’ job satisfaction. It was recommended that Anambra state ministry of education should encourage principals to adopt idealised influence style since it has been found to positively influence teachers’ job satisfaction.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no1.2023.pg78.97
Ngam Confidence Chia
Violence tops the chart of key Security challenges that have provided anxious moments to governments at local, national, and international levels in the 21 st Century. While protests and other civic engagements are basic requirements for vibrant democracies and governance, armed violence from criminals and militia on various counts has not only multiplied but grown to impose new and quite exacting security concerns, especially for African countries already hunted by heavy debt burden, hunger, strife and other forms of troubles. It is easy to understand violence against the state or any other organized system as a response to poor governance and mismanagement since all of them combine to nurture or implant grievances in some groups and people but it is difficult to understand why armed groups will turn to exert violence on its own established traditional authorities and Institutions which they have held for long as custodians of anything that protects their wellbeing. This paper has a mission to examine how armed violence has desecrated and repeatedly toyed with both the traditional authorities (Fons, Chiefs, Lamidos, notables) and insignia that formed the nucleus of traditional private and public elegance in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon prior to and during the violent phase of the war of secession that has been raging the Cameroon political economy since 2017. The arguments sustained plus submissions of this paper are a product of scrutiny of the synchrony of data gleaned from primary, secondary, and other sources. After presenting the context of the study which critically engages the issues and background required for an understanding of the key matters in discourse, we argue that(a) the desecration or practice of violence on traditional authorities and their insignia in Anglophone Cameroon has destroyed the key elements of hope that bonded not only people but also the segments/regiments of the society together, (b) such macabre action
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This study focuses on the impact of social policies on poverty reduction in Africa, specifically in Nigeria. Poverty is a major challenge to social development, and its effects are exacerbated by factors such as terrorism and insurgency. The study uses a comprehensive literature review to examine the social policies implemented in Nigeria to address poverty, including initiatives like the National Accelerated Food Production Project and the Conditional Cash Transfer program. The study also explores the theoretical framework of poverty reduction, considering theories such as the Capability Approach and the Dependency Theory. The findings emphasize the importance of a multi-faceted approach to poverty reduction, recommending actions such as strengthening social policies, diversifying economic growth, improving access to education, enhancing infrastructure development, addressing governance and corruption issues, and fostering regional and international cooperation. By implementing these recommendations, it is anticipated that Nigeria and other African countries can effectively reduce poverty and improve social development, ultimately enhancing the quality of life and preserving human dignity.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no1.2023.pg13.26
Sylvanus P. Idiong, Ademola Joseph Aladejana, Donatus C. Ukulor
The study investigated the use of e-library on teachers’ instructional delivery in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District of Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated as well as a correlation research design was used to guide the study. The study’s population comprised all the two thousand, three hundred and ninety (2,390) teachers and fifteen thousand, eight hundred and forty-eight (15,848) students in the eighty-six (86) public secondary schools in the North-West Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State. Using proportionate sampling technique, three hundred and fifty-six (356) teachers were selected as sample size for the study. The instruments for data collection were two sets of questionnaire developed by the researcher with the title ICT Facilities Questionnaire (IFQ) and Teachers’ Instructional Delivery Questionnaire (TIDQ). The reliability coefficient of the instruments were established using Cronbach’s Alpha Analysis with the reliability co-efficient alpha of 0.866 for ICT Facilities Questionnaire (IFQ) and 0.786 for Teachers’ Instructional Delivery Questionnaire (TIDQ). Data collected were analyzed using Simple Linear Regression Analysis at .05 level of significance. The result of the analyses revealed that the use of E-library significantly predict teachers’ instructional delivery in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-west Sensational District. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others, that government should encourage the use of ICT facilities by making them available in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District. Moreso, teachers should be trained to make use of these facilities effectively through workshops, seminars and conferences.
本研究调查了电子图书馆在尼日利亚阿夸伊博姆西北参议院区公立中学教师教学交付中的使用情况。制定一个研究问题和一个假设，并采用相关研究设计来指导研究。该研究的人口包括阿夸伊博姆州西北参议院区的86所公立中学的2,390(2,390)名教师和15,000,848(15,848)名学生。采用比例抽样法，选取356名教师作为研究样本。数据收集的工具是研究者开发的两套问卷，题目为ICT设施问卷(IFQ)和教师教学交付问卷(TIDQ)。采用Cronbach ' s Alpha分析法确定各量表的信度系数，其中ICT设施问卷(IFQ)的信度系数为0.866，教师教学交付问卷(TIDQ)的信度系数为0.786。收集的数据采用简单线性回归分析，显著性水平为0.05。分析结果显示，电子图书馆的使用显著预测阿夸伊博姆西北煽情区公立中学教师的教学交付。根据这些调查结果，除其他外，建议政府应鼓励使用信息和通信技术设施，在阿夸伊博姆西北参议院区的公立中学提供这些设施。此外，应通过讲习班、研讨会和会议对教师进行培训，以便有效地利用这些设施。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.v9.no1.2023.pg33.41
Bakari Wadinga
While population size can determine the size of human capital of a country which is essential for economic growth. It may not necessarily be a major factor to influence GDP growth rate. Malthusian theory of population postulates that increase in population size would create hunger, starvation and therefore stagnate economic prosperity. On the other hand, the Endogenous growth theory demonstrates the significance of population growth in facilitating economic growth via human capital development, entrepreneurial skills and innovation among others. China demonstrated during its rising economic prospects that the size of population significantly and directly influences economic growth. However, this review shows that over the past few years the dynamics has shifted with recent data indicating that China’s growth is not dependent on its population size. Therefore, for population size to increase GDP growth rate, good policies that target human capital development must be put in place.
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