Browsing by Author "Ojedokun, I. M."

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Effectiveness of occupational health intervention programme on work place environmental risks and stress management among nurses in south-west Nigeria
(2006) Ajala E. M.; Ojedokun, I. M.
"The nurse’s role has long been regarded as stress filled based on the physical labour human suffering, work hours, staffing and interpersonal relationships that are central to the work nurses do. Occupational stress is thus, a recognized problem among health care workers in general. Nursing has therefore been identified as an occupation that has high level of risks and stress in the work place environment. Therefore the study investigated the effects of occupational health intervention programme on environmental risks and stress management of staff nurses in South-west Nigeria. A pretest, posttest, control group, quasi-experimental research design was adopted. Two hundred and twenty five (225) respondents were selected for the study. One hundred and twelve (112) respondents were used as experimental group while one hundred and thirteen (113) respondents were used as control group. Fish bowl method was used for grouping the participants into experimental and control groups respectively. A self-developed questionnaire tagged ‘Occupational Health Intervention Programme, Environmental Risks and Stress Management Questionnaire OHIPERSMQ’ with a reliability coefficient of 0.88 was used. The experimentation lasted 8 weeks. Analysis was done using ANCOVA and Multiple Classification Analysis. Hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level. Findings revealed that occupational health intervention programme has significant effect on risk management knowledge of staff nurses. The experimental group had mean = 4.44, better than the control group that had mean = 2.92. Also, occupational health intervention programme had significant effect on stress management knowledge of nurses with experimental group mean = 7.78, better than the control group mean = 2.36. Based on these findings, it was recommended that medical social workers should ensure that nurses participate in educational training in skills associated with risk reduction, stress reduction and safety promotion so as to guarantee their wellbeing and good job performance."
Safety knowledge as predictor of accident prevention and crisis management among health and industrial social workers in southwest Nigeria
(2017) Ojedokun, I. M.; Ajala, E. M.
"Safety consciousness is an everyday affair that is closely knitted with security. Safety consciousness which is a way of accident prevention couple with crisis management has become a challenge in the workplace. The absence of knowledge of safety on the part of Social workers intervention in accident prevention and crisis management has become challenging in different ways to the extent of affecting individuals, families, organizations and communities. To this end this study looked at safety knowledge as predictor of accident prevention and crisis management among health and industrial social workers in South-West Nigeria. The study adopts the descriptive survey research design with the population consisting of health social workers in public hospitals and industrial social workers in selected manufacturing firms in the South West Nigeria. Random sampling was used to select three states, Oyo, Lagos and Ogun States, out of the six states in the South West. The population was clustered into health and industrial sectors. Purposive sampling technique was used to select forty respondents from each stratum thereby making a total of two hundred and forty respondents. A self-developed questionnaire tagged “Safety Knowledge, Accident prevention and Crisis Management Questionnaire- SKAPCMQ” with a reliability coefficient of 0.84 was used for data collection. The instrument was rated on a four-point scale of Strongly Disagree (SD=1), Disagree (D=2), Agree (A=3), Strongly Agree (SA=4). Frequency counts and percentages were used to analyse the demographic characteristics of the respondents while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the research hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from the study showed that health and industrial social workers’ safety knowledge had a significant relationship with accident prevention (r = 0.855, P < 0.05) and that health and industrial social workers’ safety knowledge had a significant relationship with crisis management (r = 0.529, P < 0.05). Based on these findings, it was recommended that employers should provide financial support for in-service training of social workers on crisis and disaster management to improve proficiency of the work force. "