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Item Solving teenage and young mothers’ childhood immunization hesitance and non-compliance through mobile immunization friendly service for working mothers in Ibadan, Nigeria(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2023) Omobowale, M. O.; Amodu, O. K.; Amodu, F. A.Mobile Immunization for working mothers (SheVaccs) is an intervention targeted at working mothers in the informal markets of Ibadan to address problem of vaccine hesitance and drop-out among different categories of mother. These mothers have great responsibilities – keeping their homes stable and their children healthy. But these mothers have challenges of different magnitudes that prevented them from immunizing their children, and for teenage mothers they are faced with socio-cultural and socio-economic obstacles and have not responded positively to childhood immunization. In relation to these challenges, SheVaccs intervention study provided friendly immunization, counselling services, and information around vaccination schedules to working mothers in Ibadan, Nigeria. The intervention covered adolescent and young mothers’ population in the selected markets. Mobile clinic was set up in 3 different purposively selected markets in Ibadan. Data for this were collected through qualitative methods of observation and 21 in-depth interviews with teenage mothers, and 6 key informant interviews with their significant others. All data were subjected to content analysis. The age range of others involved in the study was between 17-23 years, almost all participants had no post- secondary school education. All mothers in this study find it difficult to attend conventional immunization centers, due to stigmatization, subtle hostility and embarrassment they experienced during pregnancy and after in some of these centers. Many of them were ignorant and have also been mis-socialized into motherhood and childcare. They preferred an immunization service that is mobile, with “strangers” who are friendly, understanding and will not judge them for ‘’being anti-social’’. They preferred Mobile clinic because it does not waste time (5 to 7 minutes), which allows them to do other thing or concentrate on their job (source of survival), provide quick, friendly counselling and intervention for their immunization related worries. Friendly Mobile immunization services targeted at teenage and young mothers will remove clog of stigmatization and hostility and minimize incidence of childhood Immunization Hesitance and non-compliance to schedule.Item In our time we had few vaccines: Grandparenting as support and strategy towards the immunization of children below the age of five in Ibadan, Nigeria(Pan African Anthropological Association, 2023) Omobowale, M. O.; Amodu, F. A.; Amodu, O. K.The institution of grandparenthood holds an important cultural role as a significant socializing agent for younger generations. Decisions on the care and well-being of new entrants to the family are affected primarily by the views of grandparents. Grandparents’ perspectives impact decision-making on childhood immunization. This study examined grandparents' role in childhood immunization uptake in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study area and population were purposively selected, while qualitative data collection methods were deployed through non-participatory observations and in-depth interviews. A total of 26 in-depth interviews were conducted in three immunisation clinics in the Ibadan metropolis area among public health nurses, parents, and grandparents. The study reveals that grandparenting, as a social institution in Ibadan, places value on the immunisation status of grandchildren. Grandparents perform this social role by educating young parents on the importance of childhood immunisation, among other child-care tips. In many instances, grandparents directly or indirectly monitor their grandchildren’s immunisation appointments and sometimes pay for unsubsidized vaccines that are not on the routine vaccine schedule to ensure the well-being of their direct or indirect grandchildren. In conclusion, the institution of grandparenting enhances childhood immunisation uptake. Grandparents’ involvement in the education of childhood immunisation improves the demand for childhood vaccination and helps achieve timely and complete childhood vaccination. It is, therefore, essential to involve grandparents in interventions for childhood immunization among the study group.Item Malaria preventive measures used by parents of under five years’ children in Ibadan Urban Markets, Nigeria.(Institute of Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2019) Omobowale, M.O.; Ademola, S. A.; Amodu, O. K.Malaria remains a major public health issue, especially among children in Nigeria. Children are an important group that should be targeted for malaria control. This study, therefore, examined the contextual interpretation and understanding of malaria, existing means of malaria prevention, treatment, and acceptability of chemoprevention among parents, guardians and grandparents of under-5 years children in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study employed qualitative methodology, through the use of observation and in-depth interviews. Two popular markets were purposively selected for the study. In all, 32 in-depth interviews were conducted. Data were coded and sorted with Atlas-ti, and subjected to content analysis. All respondents identified that malaria is caused and spread by the bite of infected mosquitos. Malaria preventive strategies used by parents in Ibadan includes use of long lasting insecticide treated net (LLIN), insecticides, insect repellant cream and herbal malaria mixture (agumu iba) used as prophylaxis. All informants mentioned frequent indoor use of either otapiapia, (a mixture of carbide, gammaline 20 organochloride insecticide, and diesel) and undiluted Sniper (a DDVP chemical family, 2, 2-dichloro vinyl dimethyl phosphate, an outdoor insecticide/miticide that should be diluted with water when used for outside fumigation) as an effective means to preventing mosquito/malaria. All were accepting of the introduction of new ways of preventing malaria such as chemo-preventive malaria drugs for children. The study showed that there is urgent need for awareness campaign on the harmful effects of DDVP chemical family misuse in Ibadan.Item Dynamism and changes in the Abia family structure and conjugal relationship: The Influence of the Nigerian Civil War(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023) Ogubuike, C.; Omobowale, M. O.; Amodu, O. K.The family, as the most basic social institution, serves as the bedrock of any society. Family structures worldwide have undergone various changes in their forms, nature, and functioning, including Abia state, Nigeria. The Nigeria Civil war is one of the symbolic events attributable to changes in the Abia family structure. Changes in the family structure could influence conjugal relation¬ships. The study explored the dynamism and changes in the family structure and conjugal relationships at different eras of the family life cycle in Abia soci¬ety. A qualitative research method was used in this study. Twenty-two partici¬pants (4 life history and 18 in-depth interview participants) were recruited in this study with purposive sampling techniques. Using an archival checklist, life histories, and an in-depth guide, information was elicited on family structure and conjugal relationships. The study was subjected to thematic analysis. The findings revealed dynamism and changes in family structure, with polygyny being most prevalent prior to the civil war, the emergence of step-parent and single-parent families during the civil war, and monogamy being most prevalent, with increasing single-parent and step-parent families contemporaneously. The conjugal relationship shifted from having concubines (acceptable and practised covertly) to having side chicks (been practised covertly). The Nigerian civil war had an impact on the observed dynamics in family structure during the civil war and immediate post-civil war. Other factors such as religion, education, civilization, and migration, among others, influenced the contemporary Abia family structure. Understanding family structure dynamics could be useful in solving issues regarding family and conjugal trajectories.Item Omoboti and Omopako: Social construction of childhood, livelihood and health in South-Western Nigeria(Vernon Press, 2019) Omobowale, M. O.; Amodu, O. K.