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Item Sexual practice and belief system among menopausal women in Ibadan: implication for sexual health(Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, University of Ibadan, 2009-07) Asuzu, C. C.; Babalola, E.; Agokei, R. O.This is a correlation cross-sectional study aimed at investigating the sexual beliefs and practices of menopausal women in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. A systematic random sampling of women within the menopausal age was used to select the respondents; 101 women were selected from schools, churches, civil service and markets. A self-constructed questionnaire was used to collect data. Focussed group discussion was also used. The ages of the women ranged between 41 and 65, with the mean age of 47. The results indicated that the three independent variables were potent predictors and accounted for 26.1% variance of sexual practices o f menopausal women. However, only sexual beliefs had significant contribution to the criterion measure. Some women claimed that they had never enjoyed sex and they do not want to continue in the act; some were afraid, believing that sexual intercourse during this period could result in ill health. It was recommended that sexuality health education should be used to tackle the problem of ignorance in this respect, as it could lead to conflict in the family.Item The Influence of peer pressure and parent-child communication on the initiation of teenage sexual activity among secondary school students in Benue State(Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan, 2009-06) Asuzu, C. C.; Tondo, M. J.This is a correlation research to find out the effects of peer pressure and parent-child communication on teenage sexual initiation among in-school adolescents in Benue State. Stratified random sampling was used to select 151 males and 166 females, totalling 317 adolescents from secondary schools in Benue state. A self-administered questionnaire tagged Teenage Sexual Activity Initiation Scale (TSAI) was used to collect data from the study sample. The scale had a reliability coefficient of 0.62. The mean age of the students was 16 years. The findings showed that there were positive significant relationships between peer pressure and initiation of sexual activity. The study has implication for family life education. Programmes should be planned to delay early initiation of sexual activity. Abstinence education should be encouraged in the schools.Item Knowledge and attitude of primary school children regarding HIV/AIDS in Ibadan, Oyo-State, Nigeria(2009-11) Asuzu, C. C.; Igbokwe, M. N.Women, who find themselves single after marriage, whether through death of a husband or through divorce, learn that being the head of a household brings with it a set of special problems, the greatest being emotional. Even in a bad marriage, the survivor feels the loss. The concept of widowhood and widow's rites are examined as it is practised in South Western Nigeria. Apart from works already documented in the literature on psychosocial implications of widowhood practices, examples abound in our society which confirm the fact that there are indeed some discriminatory practices which have a lot of psychological and sociological implications on widows in South Western Nigeria. There is no doubt that these unhealthy attitudes do have some psychological and sociological implications on the individual in general. This paper, therefore, explains the various psychological and sociological implications, and offer recommendations on how the discriminatory practices against widows could be minimized and how their psychological and sociological effects would be reduced.Item Effect of client centred therapy and reality therapy in fostering HIV voluntary counselling and testing among secondary school students in Oyo-State, Nigeria(2009) Asuzu, C. C.; Akintola, A. O.Voluntary HIV testing is being currently adjudged as one of the major ways by which one's HIV status can be ascertained so as to either maintain a negative status or seek health care services in case one is positive. However, submitting oneself to HIV test voluntarily has become difficult even among the elites due to various reasons, ranging from fear of being tested positive to HIV, misinformation, stigmatisation and discrimination. Counselling with an appropriate method remained the only way to achieve this. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of client centred and .reality therapies in the improvement of VCT among secondary school students. the pre-test, post-test, control group, quasi-experimental design with 3x2x2 factorial matrix was used. Stratified simple random sampling was adopted in selecting 120 participants from three public secondary schools in Iseyin. Participants were subjected to six weeks of training in client centred therapy and reality therapy while participants in the control group received no training. Voluntary and counselling testing scale was used to collect data from the respondents. Data obtained were analysed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Findings revealed that the students in the two experimental groups were significantly higher in their acceptance of HIV testing than those in the control group. This indicated that CCT and reality therapy were effective in fostering VCT.( F=22.46, df2,P<0.0 1). Reality therapy was however most effective in fostering VCT and therefore, clinical psychologist, social workers, counselling and health care providers could make use of it in solving HIV/VCT related problems.Item Influence of educational level on HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitude and sexual behaviour of road transport workers in Ibadan(Higher Education Research and Policy Network, 2008-01) Asuzu, C. C.; Odanye, T.This is a non-experimental, exploratory analytical study that investigated some factors that affect the HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitude and sexual behaviour of road transport workers in Ibadan. A total of 223 commercial road transporters were randomly selected from six motor parks in Ibadan metropolis were used as samples for the study. A self designed and validated scale (Road Transporters HIV/AIDS Related Knowledge, Attitude and Sexual Behaviour Scale) was used to collect data for the study. The data collected were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance. The three hypotheses raised and tested at 0.05 alpha level were rejected (p<0.05) because educational qualifications had significant influence on the HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitude and sexual behaviours of the commercial road transport workers in Ibadan. The study concluded that formal education plays an important role in the HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitude and sexual behaviour of the commercial road transport workers and recommended that since education is a vital tool for behaviour modification, a means should be devised in collaboration with NURTW executives to make it mandatory for road transport workers to have at least a secondary school certificate before being allowed to join the union.Item Shift duty and stress coping strategies among nurses in the University College Hospital, Ibadan(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2009-07) Asuzu, C. C.This is an exploratory analytical survey, aimed at identifying the effect of shift duty and the coping strategies-used to adjust to the stress of shift work among rimes working in the University College Hospital, Ibadan in Nigeria. The sample of the study consists of 166 nurses working in various wards selected by a stratified random sampling. The questionnaires were in two sections A and B. Data was collected and analysed using percentages X2, t-test and correlation analysis. Shift duty was reported as stressful by 79 (47.6%) of the nurses studied. Various stress coping responses were identified which were largely based on planning. Neither age nor seniority on the job had any statistical significant influence on the proportion of nurses that report stress from shift work. The positive coping styles correlated negatively with the negative ones but the negative correlations were significant in only two instances namely between planning and denial (P<0.01) and between positive interpretations and growth and alcohol - drug disengagement (P<0.05) Stress coping responses of nurses were largely based on planning and active coping. The finding of this study indicated a need for establishment of counselling unit within the hospital where nurses or even other health workers could be guided and counselled on positive Coping strategies for effective delivery of nursing care to the patients.Item Knowledge of consequences of promiscuity among adolescents in Ibadan(2005) Asuzu, C. C.; Nwagwu, H.This study investigated the consequences of promiscuity among the adolescents in Ibadan. The study used a pre and post experimental group design. Three local governments in Ibadan metropolis and three co-educational secondary schools were assigned to three groups, I, II and III by simple random sampling procedure. This comprised of 60 males and 60 females with the mean age of 17.3 years. Sexual behaviour inventory was used to collect data. Analysis of covariance was used to analyse the null hypothesis. The result indicated that there were significant differences in knowledge of consequences of promiscuity between adolescents in the treatment and the ones in the control groups. This was considered necessary knowledge in the prevention of STI,s including the current HIV/AIDS pandemic Based on these findings, creation of awareness on the consequences of promiscuity was recommended. Family Life Education, structured academic and behavioural programmes should be included in the secondary schools’ curriculum which will enhance emotional strength of the adolescents.Item Sexual maturation among school teenagers and implications for family life(School of Science and Technology, Babcock University, 2004) Asuzu, C. C.; Asuzu, M. C.There appears to be an observed progressive drop in the age of sexual maturation among Nigerian adolescents. There is also progressive urbanization, industrialization and diffusion of western values into the culture, especially in relation to sexual morals and behaviour. The extent to which these changes may affect the sexual maturation processes, and their implications for health and the adolescents’ family life education and counselling were studied. A cross-sectional evaluation of the age of the attainment of secondary sexual characteristics among secondary> school students in Ibadan North Local Government Area, using a questionnaire study instrument was undertaken. The results show that the mean ages have not changed much for the general population when compared with previous studies. The values ranged from 12.2 years for the rapid growth spurt to 15.4 years for the sexual awakening. Mean age of the menarche was 13.2 years, similar to existing data. However, the interval between the onset of platonic heterosexual interest and sexual awakening was 0.9 and 0.4 years intervals in the boys and girls respectively. The obvious implications of the later for adequate sexual health and family life education for the youths are discussed.Item Shift duty and other sources of stress among nurses in the University College Hospital, Ibadan(Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan, 2004) Asuzu, C. C.This study was done to find out the various sources of stress among the nurses as well as the place of shift duty as a stress factor among the nurses at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. A cross- sectional study of one hundred and sixty-six nurses in the University College Hospital was done with the use of a self-administered questionnaire. The staff were selected from all the clinical departments by a stratified random sampling. The results show that shift duty was rated as the most important source of professional stress among the nurses, affecting 79 or 47.6% of the workers. The next two most important sources of occupational stress were poor wages and death of some patients. The commonest cause of non-(directly) occupational stress was problem with transportation - in 85 or 51.2% of the workers. Others were general poverty and children's illness. It is concluded that governments in Nigeria should pay attention to the sources of stress for the nurses. Better shift duty allowance should be paid to those who do so while the public transport system should be developed.Item Comparative effectiveness of two psychological techniques in the management promiscuity among adolescents in Ibadan(Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan, 2003) Asuzu, C. C.; Nwagwu, H.; Ohaeri, J. U.; Asuzu, M. C.The study was designed to investigate the effect of covert self-control and assertiveness training in the management of promiscuity as a vital risk factor in the transmission of sexually transmitted infections and human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (STIs/HIV/AIDS). A pre- and post-test experimental- control group design was employed. Three' local government areas (LGAs) out of the five in Ibadan metropolis, were selected by simple random sampling, and used for the study. One school was selected from each LGA similarly for the two treatment groups and for the control group respectively with forty promiscuous students in each group. The two experimental groups were exposed to a twenty week treatment while the control group received no treatment. Both the treatment programmes were effective in reducing promiscuity in the adolescents. Covert self-control was found to be more effective than assertiveness training. Commendation was received for the free but value-base of the training by the students. Based on the findings, it was recommended that family life education should be implemented in the secondary schools in such a way as to meet the specific value base needs and to adequately control promiscuity among the school children.