The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongs... more The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongst youths. Meanwhile news surrounding the on-going Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa are frightening. This study assessed the relevance of the social networking media in spreading awareness about EVD prevention and control in Southwestern Nigeria. Descriptive cross sectional study among 400 youths selected using multistage sampling method. Research instruments used were semi structured self administered questionnaires that were analyzed using the SPSS software version 17.0. Three hundred and eighty (95.0%) of respondents were members of a social network. Several misconceptions trailed the spread of information about EVD. Though only 21(7.3%) bothered to ascertain the reliability of such information before use, 332 (83.0%) believed that SM can also be used to dispel rumours on health information, 337(84.3%) said they would like the use of SM regulated, while 206 (51.6%) sti...
Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was... more Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was performed to analyze the trend of default and other treatment outcomes of patients with DOTS therapy in terms of relapse, failure and death. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using records of all the 198 patients managed in the 2 year period (78 and 120
The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongs... more The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongst youths. Meanwhile news surrounding the on-going Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa are frightening. This study assessed the relevance of the social networking media in spreading awareness about EVD prevention and control in Southwestern Nigeria. Descriptive cross sectional study among 400 youths selected using multistage sampling method. Research instruments used were semi structured self administered questionnaires that were analyzed using the SPSS software version 17.0. Three hundred and eighty (95.0%) of respondents were members of a social network. Several misconceptions trailed the spread of information about EVD. Though only 21(7.3%) bothered to ascertain the reliability of such information before use, 332 (83.0%) believed that SM can also be used to dispel rumours on health information, 337(84.3%) said they would like the use of SM regulated, while 206 (51.6%) sti...
Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was... more Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was performed to analyze the trend of default and other treatment outcomes of patients with DOTS therapy in terms of relapse, failure and death. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using records of all the 198 patients managed in the 2 year period (78 and 120
Background: An estimated 13-20 million people in developing countries are engaged in artisanal mi... more Background: An estimated 13-20 million people in developing countries are engaged in artisanal mining and are exposed to various health-related occupational hazards. This study seeks to find out the occupational safety practices among artisanal miners in a rural community in southwest Nigeria. Methodology: It was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in Ijero-Ekiti area of Ekiti State using a semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire to assess the occupational safety practices of artisanal miners. The analysis was done using EPI INFO version 4.3.1. The study population included all the artisanal miners that were involved in mining in Ijero. All the artisanal miners that consented to take part in the study were recruited. Results: More than half of the respondents were above 30 years of age (52.5%). Of the 118 respondents interviewed 66 (56%) did not make use of protective measures. Respondents who said their employers did provide protective measures for them w...
Introduction: the Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health aw... more Introduction: the Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongst youths. Meanwhile news sur-rounding the on-going Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa are frightening. This study assessed the relevance of the social networking media in spreading awareness about EVD prevention and control in Southwestern Nigeria. Methods: descriptive cross sectional study among 400 youths selected using multistage sampling method. Research instruments used were semi structured self administered questionnaires that were analyzed using the SPSS software version 17.0.
Inappropriate self-medication results in wastage of resources, resistance to pathogen and general... more Inappropriate self-medication results in wastage of resources, resistance to pathogen and generally entails serious health hazard. This study was undertaken to determine the knowledge, practice and reasons for practice of self-medication among health workers in a Nigerian tertiary institution. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among staff of Federal Medical Center Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 305 respondents that were interviewed via a pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Analysis was done using SPSS version 15 and while chi-square test was used to test significance between variables, significant (p value set<0.05). Among the 305 respondents interviewed, the age range was 18-52yrs with greater proportion being males (51.8%). Majority of respondents were aware of self-medication (94.8%), but only 47.2% had good knowledge of it. Reasons for practicing self-medication were financial problem (10.8%), mild sickness (1...
The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongs... more The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongst youths. Meanwhile news surrounding the on-going Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa are frightening. This study assessed the relevance of the social networking media in spreading awareness about EVD prevention and control in Southwestern Nigeria. Descriptive cross sectional study among 400 youths selected using multistage sampling method. Research instruments used were semi structured self administered questionnaires that were analyzed using the SPSS software version 17.0. Three hundred and eighty (95.0%) of respondents were members of a social network. Several misconceptions trailed the spread of information about EVD. Though only 21(7.3%) bothered to ascertain the reliability of such information before use, 332 (83.0%) believed that SM can also be used to dispel rumours on health information, 337(84.3%) said they would like the use of SM regulated, while 206 (51.6%) sti...
Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was... more Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was performed to analyze the trend of default and other treatment outcomes of patients with DOTS therapy in terms of relapse, failure and death. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using records of all the 198 patients managed in the 2 year period (78 and 120
The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongs... more The Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongst youths. Meanwhile news surrounding the on-going Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa are frightening. This study assessed the relevance of the social networking media in spreading awareness about EVD prevention and control in Southwestern Nigeria. Descriptive cross sectional study among 400 youths selected using multistage sampling method. Research instruments used were semi structured self administered questionnaires that were analyzed using the SPSS software version 17.0. Three hundred and eighty (95.0%) of respondents were members of a social network. Several misconceptions trailed the spread of information about EVD. Though only 21(7.3%) bothered to ascertain the reliability of such information before use, 332 (83.0%) believed that SM can also be used to dispel rumours on health information, 337(84.3%) said they would like the use of SM regulated, while 206 (51.6%) sti...
Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was... more Background: Treatment default can foster emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. This study was performed to analyze the trend of default and other treatment outcomes of patients with DOTS therapy in terms of relapse, failure and death. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using records of all the 198 patients managed in the 2 year period (78 and 120
Background: An estimated 13-20 million people in developing countries are engaged in artisanal mi... more Background: An estimated 13-20 million people in developing countries are engaged in artisanal mining and are exposed to various health-related occupational hazards. This study seeks to find out the occupational safety practices among artisanal miners in a rural community in southwest Nigeria. Methodology: It was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in Ijero-Ekiti area of Ekiti State using a semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire to assess the occupational safety practices of artisanal miners. The analysis was done using EPI INFO version 4.3.1. The study population included all the artisanal miners that were involved in mining in Ijero. All the artisanal miners that consented to take part in the study were recruited. Results: More than half of the respondents were above 30 years of age (52.5%). Of the 118 respondents interviewed 66 (56%) did not make use of protective measures. Respondents who said their employers did provide protective measures for them w...
Introduction: the Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health aw... more Introduction: the Social Media (SM) is fast becoming a huge avenue to create and spread health awareness amongst youths. Meanwhile news sur-rounding the on-going Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa are frightening. This study assessed the relevance of the social networking media in spreading awareness about EVD prevention and control in Southwestern Nigeria. Methods: descriptive cross sectional study among 400 youths selected using multistage sampling method. Research instruments used were semi structured self administered questionnaires that were analyzed using the SPSS software version 17.0.
Inappropriate self-medication results in wastage of resources, resistance to pathogen and general... more Inappropriate self-medication results in wastage of resources, resistance to pathogen and generally entails serious health hazard. This study was undertaken to determine the knowledge, practice and reasons for practice of self-medication among health workers in a Nigerian tertiary institution. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among staff of Federal Medical Center Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 305 respondents that were interviewed via a pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Analysis was done using SPSS version 15 and while chi-square test was used to test significance between variables, significant (p value set<0.05). Among the 305 respondents interviewed, the age range was 18-52yrs with greater proportion being males (51.8%). Majority of respondents were aware of self-medication (94.8%), but only 47.2% had good knowledge of it. Reasons for practicing self-medication were financial problem (10.8%), mild sickness (1...
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