ABSTRACT Dual contraception or dual method refers to the use of condom with hormonal contraceptives or an intrauterine device to ensure enhanced protection and prevention of both unintended pregnancies and STI/HIV. When used consistently and correctly, it is capable of ensuring healthy sexual life devoid of the challenges of morbidity and mortality associated with unprotected sex. Notwithstanding, the extent of the use of dual contraceptives method use in Ghana is not known. The overarching...
ABSTRACT Life satisfaction, identified as one of the important components of quality of life, is generally low in Nigeria. Most studies on life satisfaction have been focused on the effects of psychological factors to the neglect of the importance of house-ownership and neighbourhood effect. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of house-ownership, religious commitment, self-esteem, social support, personality factors and the moderating effect of neighbourhood on life satisfaction...
ABSTRACT Since Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV) detection in 1981, 25milion people have died and 65 million people are living with the disease. The HIV prevalence among antenatal care attendants rose to 40% globally with 1500 children infected each day At the end of 2007, women accounted for 50% of all adults living with HIV worldwide, and 61% in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana about 3,129,390 are reported living with the disease in 2007 with HIV positivity prevalence rate of 2.6% among...
ABSTRACT Public service retirees in South-West Nigeria face quite a number of challenges which affect their life satisfaction and overall well being; most often with resultant shortened life span few years after retirement. Previous studies have focused more on pension and other benefits as well as problems related with ageism without adequate consideration for the combined effects of socio-economic factors (accommodation, dependent children, family type, other dependents, community commitme...
ABSTRACT Introduction: HIV/AIDS remains one of the world’s most important Public Health issue according to WHO (2014). The Ghana AIDS Commission (2014) reports a linear downward trend of HIV since the year 2008. Several studies report different prevalence of sexual risk behavior among PLWHA, but very few studies have been conducted in Ghana. The primary mode of HIV transmission is through sexual contact, which accounts for a greater number of new HIV cases (Ghana AIDS Commission, 2013). Hen...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Medication adherence is an integral component in the management of hypertension. Poor adherence to medications is one of the major public health challenges. Sub optimal adherence to antihypertensive medication is a major risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases. Good medication adherence would ensure adequate blood control and therefore reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The objective was to measure adherence levels amongst hypertensive patients and to d...
Abstract:The study was carried out to investigate gender differences in rural households’ food security coping strategies in South-Western Nigeria. A multi stage sampling technique was used in selecting 252 respondents utilized for the study. A well-structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from them. The result shows that the females were older than the male with a mean age of 50 and 45 years respectively. Most of the male respondents were married as against the females. Ther...
ABSTRACT The study examined the economic analysis of cassava production among smallholder farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were: to examine the socio-economic characteristics of the cassava producers, determine the factors influencing the level of profitability accruable to the cassava producers, determine the cost and returns of cassava production, also to identify the...
The Benefits and Challenges of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Adoption by Listed Companies (A Case Study of Nigeria Breweries Plc, Ibadan). ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to bring out issue and concepts of international financial reporting standard (IFRS) in general, its relationship to corporate business with specific reference to Nigeria Brewery Pic, Ibadan. The Objective of the study is to present the benefit of IFRS adoption and the problem of the study is the ...
ABSTRACT The causes and effects of communication gap in office administrative. Efficiency especially in Udi Local Government Area. Since its inception cannot be over emphasized. This project is an insight of the communication is as old as the existence of human society since no one can hardly exist without the interaction with other person. The important of communication to the society cannot be over emphasized. It is no exaggeration to say that the communication function is the means by...
IMPACT OF RECRUITMENT METHOD ON THE NIGERIAN CIVIL SERVICE mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria">INTRODUCTION mso-fareast-font-family:Arial">The concept of personnel management is a common term to mean management of staff in an organization. The conceptual approach refers to the administration of staff matters in organizations. The operational approach deals with what personnel officers naturally do. The major functions of personnel management deal with the general administration performe...
ABSTRACT Stress has been well known to have negative effects on the lives of individuals including their health, social interactions and work. This study looked into the effect stress has on the secretary’s job performance. The study defined stress to be ‘the body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response’. Purposive Sampling technique was used to sample secretaries from various department within the Ministries compound of New Juaben Municipality of the Easte...
AbstractMarital roles and career of women go a long way in defining how gender is perceived in today’s view on roles of the female folks. It is expected that a woman’s role and the part she plays in society before anything, is to her husband and children, she herself comes last. Such roles include, sati...
1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It has been said that the traditional role of financial account was to give account of the stewardship to the owner of business who was divorced from management of business. There is always the tendency for the owners to debt the content of the report presented to them. They fear that the report may contain errors, conceal fraud, deliberately misleading or lack in the information content. To solve this problem of credibility in reports and accounts there is always t...
INTRODUCTION 1.1BACKGROUND OF STUDY Investment proposals and decisions by business entities and individuals could evolve due to certain reasons. These include decisions concerning the following; (a)New products or expansion of existing product (b)Replacement of equipments or building ©Exploration and others These decision involve huge capital expenditure on capital investments. Therefore, for any of them to be meaningful there must be decisions on the sources of such huge capital fund In...