ABSTRACT Using the research survey method, the study sought to assess how psychosocial determinants like religion, cultural identity and gender role ideology affected the help seeking behaviour of married persons in the event of them experiencing intimate partner violence, as well as the relationship between age, gender, education and help seeking. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from two hundred and five participants comprising 100 males and 105 females. The Pearson Co...
ABSTRACT Using the research survey method, the study sought to assess how psychosocial determinants like religion, cultural identity and gender role ideology affected the help-seeking behaviour of married persons in the event of them experiencing intimate partner violence, as well as the relationship between age, gender, education and help-seeking. A convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from two hundred and five participants comprising 100 males and 105 females. The Pearso...
Abstract: Background: There is renewed acknowledgement that targeting gametocytes is essential for malaria control and elimination efforts. Simple mathematical models were fitted to data from clinical trials in order to determine the mean gametocyte circulation time and duration of gametocyte carriage in treated malaria patients. Methods: Data were used from clinical trials from East Africa. The first trial compared non-artemisinin combination therapy (non-ACT: sulphadoxine-yrimethamine (SP)...
ABSTRACT Background: Routine empiric antibiotic therapy is common in patients living with HIV/AIDS. Such routine antibiotic regimen could lead to selection of multidrug resistance especially ESBLs in hitherto drug sensitive intestinal colonizing flora. There is paucity of data to describe intestinal carriage of ESBL-producing enterobacteria in HIV/AIDS patients. Aim: This study was designed to examine HIV/AIDS patients for faecal carriage with extendedspectrum beta-lactamase producing enterob...
Introduction Although the conflict of law issues in relation to family law cover three main areas, namely: (1) marriage; (2) matrimonial causes; and (3) children, the present chapter will focus only on the first one, that is, “Marriage”. When the court has to decide whether a marriage is valid, foreign elements may be involved: one or both of the spouses may be foreign, or the marriage may have been celebrated in a foreign country.
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ............................................................................................................................. i APPROVAL SHEET ...................................................................................................................... ii DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..............................................
Abstract/Overview Chastity is central value in sustaining moral standards related to sexual actions and maintaining family constancy to facilitate societal perpetuation. Most traditional societies value virginity for girls, and fidelity in marriage, as men uphold self-control. Each community deals with chastity issues, in the form of taboos and chastisement for the deviants. Studies divulge that failure to observe key sexual values, has affected an enormous number of families internationa...
TABLE OF CONTENTDECLARATION IAPPROVAL IIDEDICATION IIIACKNOWLEDGMENTS IVTABLE OF CONTENT VLIST OF FIGURES VIIILIST OF TABLES IXACRONYMS XABSTRACT XIICHAPTER ONE 11.0 INTRoDUCTION 11.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 11.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS 31.3 OI~wCTIvEs OF THE STUDY 51.3.1 General Objectives: 51.3.2 Specific Objectives: S1.3.3 Research Questions S1.4 ScOPE OFTHE STUDY~ 51.5 SIGNIFIcANCE/JUSTIFICATION 6CHAPTER TWO: 7LITERARURE REVIEW 72.1 INTRoDUCTION 72.2 THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS; 72.4.1 ...
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between determinants and fertility behavior among persons in union in Ogo Oluwa Local Government area, Oyo State. Data for this paper was collected using systematic random san1pling technique; the respondents were persons in union aged 15-49 who had ever married. The data for this work was generated from questionnaire survey administered to 400 persons in union of the reproductive age of 15-49 years. These persons in union were sampled from 8...
ABSTRACT The study examined the nature of recurring violence against women in Harare. It focused on the lived experiences among female victims. Particular attention was given to the forms of violence experienced, reasons for staying in abusive marriages and the surviving mechanisms adopted by the female victims. The qualitative research method was employed to gather the required data with the use of semi-structured interviews. The study findings confirmed the existence of violence in marriag...
ABSTRACT The problem of the study is to find out and compare the causes of dropout among boys in secondary schools in Namutumba District, Namutumba Central Kangulumo Warc4 and recommend intervention measures and further studies to emulate the same. The phenomenon has severe negative consequences on boys and society in terms of economic, social, political, and psychological dimensions and the problems are differentiable among the boys. Namutumba Districts have a high secondary school dropout ...
ABSTRACT The title of the study is; ‘The impact of early marriages on the academic performance of the girl child in Elangata-wuas zone Kajiado district, Kenya’. It was intended investigate the effect of early marriages on the performance of the girls in education. The report is made up of five chapters. Chapter one deals with the introduction thus; the background to the study, statement of the problem, objectives and others. Chapter two is literature review, chapter three is research meth...
ABSTRACT 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2 DS) is the most common microdeletion syndrome and is underdiagnosed in diverse populations. This syndrome has a variable phenotype and affects multiple systems, making early recognition imperative. In this study, individuals from diverse populations with 22q11.2 DS were evaluated clinically and by facial analysis technology. Clinical information from 106 individuals and images from 101 were collected from individuals with 22q11.2 DS from 11 countrie...
ABSTRACT Family processes affect the socio-emotional functioning of children and especially those living in poor families and families experiencing economic decline. Children of single mothers are at substantially higher risk than children of two parent families in experiencing socio-emotional problems. Increasing numbers and proportions of children born outside marriage and the rise in divorce rate have contributed to increased proportions of children growing up in single motherhood families...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study is to determine the effect of social media on the behavior of teenagers and young adults in Uganda and the specific objectives were; to determine how the youth in Uganda use social media in their daily lives, to determine if the youth in Uganda prefer social media as means of communication as opposed to traditional methods, to find out the impacts social media has on behavior changes among the Ugandan youths to determine the threats that comes with us...