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Big data analytics in the healthcare industry: A systematic review and roadmap for practical implementation in Nigeria
Get PDFIntroduction: The introduction of digitization of healthcare data has posed both challenges and opportunities within the industry. Big Data Analytics (BDA) has emerged as a powerful tool, facilitating data-driven decision-making and revolutionizing patient care.
Purpose: The research aimed to analyze diverse perspectives on big data in healthcare, assess BDA's application in the sector, examine contexts, synthesize findings, and propose an implementation roadmap and future research directions.
Methodology: Using an SLR protocol by Nazir et al. (2019), sources like Google Scholar, IEEE, ScienceDirect, Springer, and Elsevier were searched with 18 queries. Inclusion criteria yielded 37 articles, with five more added through citation searches, totaling 42.
Results: The study uncovers diverse healthcare viewpoints on big data's transformative potential, precision medicine, resource optimization, and challenges like security and interoperability. BDA empowers clinical choices, early disease detection, and personalized medicine. Future areas include ethics, interpretable AI, real-time BDA, multi-omics integration, AI-driven drug discovery, mental health, resource constraints, health disparities, secure data sharing, and human-AI collaboration.
Conclusion: This study illuminates Big Data Analytics' transformative potential in healthcare, revealing diverse applications and emphasizing ethical complexities. Integrated data analysis is advocated for patient-centric services.
Recommendation: Balancing BDA's power with privacy, guidelines, and regulations is vital. Implementing the Nigerian healthcare roadmap can optimize outcomes, address challenges, and enhance efficiency. Future research should focus on ethics, interpretable AI, real-time BDA, and mental health integration
Lecturers’ knowledge, access and utilization of inclusive virtual learning platforms in Nigerian tertiary education: Implications for learners with visual and hearing impairments
Get PDFINTRODUCTION: The ability of lecturers to choose and use appropriate virtual e-learning platforms for learners with visual and hearing impairments comes from the awareness of its existence, accessibility, and their perceived level of competence.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine the knowledge, access and utilization of lecturers of virtual learning platforms that accommodate learners with visual and hearing impairments.
DESIGN: Descriptive survey method was used. Simple random sampling was used to select representative samples from the study. A structured questionnaire adapted from Okoro (2015) and titled “Lecturers e-learning knowledge, access and utilization questionnaire (LEKAUQ) was used for data collection. Collected data were analyzed using statistical mean. The results of the analysis were used to answer research questions. The study population is made up of all lecturers from the Alvan Ikoku Federal Colleges of Education Owerri in Nigeria as at the time of the study.
RESULTS: The result showed that the lecturers had knowledge of multimedia virtual learning resources that accommodate learners with visual and hearing impairments. Their perceived level of accessibility is moderate. The variation in ways of utilization is low; however their use of voice notes and WhatsApp is high. Challenges that affect lecturers ‘use of virtual learning platforms and resources include poor supply of resources, data, electricity, funding, and students’ absence from online classes.
RECOMMENDATIONS: It is recommended that institutions of higher learning should take responsibility for making virtual learning resources available and accessible to lecturers and students. Equally lecturers should be formally sensitized on the need to use a variety of inclusive virtual learning resources. Institutions of higher learning should get lecturers involved in designing institution based resources
Impact of parenting practices on national security in Benue state, Nigeria
Get PDFIntroduction: Insecurity in Nigeria has become something of grave concern to all well-meaning citizens most of who continue to wonder how this dastardly situation came about; and worse still rather than abate, the problem is escalating and now seems to be totally out of control.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate impact of parenting practices on national security.
Methodology: The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population consisted of 363,547 married males and females in Benue State. A sample of 170 spouses was selected. Multi-stage sampling method was adopted which comprised proportionate and purposive sampling method. ‘Parenting Practices and National Security Questionnaire PPNSQ’ was validated and used to elicit information from the respondents. Cronbach alpha method yielded a reliability coefficient of .89. Mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. Any mean score of 2.50 and above were accepted as having desired impact while anything contrary is rejected.
Results: The result revealed that adoption of good ethical values, proper child upbringing, proper parental monitoring are among parental practices that enhance national security while use of autocratic parenting style, poor parental guidance, lack of parental love and use of drugs and alcohol by family members escalate national insecurity. The study also found that parenting practices have both positive and negative impact on national security.
Recommendations: The study recommended that parents should endeavour to adopt parenting practices that enhance national security rather than those that escalate national insecurity
Gender and educational exposure as predisposing factors of youth restiveness in Kwara state, Nigeria
Get PDFINTRODUCTION: Reports of growing cases of cultism, ethnic militia, kidnapping, armed robbery, thuggery and agitations of Nigerian youths on alarming dimensions are seriously becoming a matter of grave concern to all and sundry. The rate at which youths take up arms is quite disturbing as many family become victims of this spate of violent upsurge.
PURPOSE: This study investigated the role of gender and educational exposure as predisposing factors of youth restiveness in Kwara State, Nigeria.
METHODS: The study presented a systematic analysis, rich theoretical and empirical description of the role of gender and educational exposure in youth restiveness in Kwara State, Nigeria. The sample of this study comprised 450 respondents (294 male and 156 female) from the population of 2,953 batch A National Youth Service Corp members posted to Kwara State in the month of May, 2015. The instrument used for data collection was an 18 item researchers’ self-structured questionnaire titled “Gender and Educational Exposure Youth Restiveness Predisposing Scale (GEEYRPS). The reliability coefficient for the instrument using Cronbach coefficient alpha was 0.78.
RESULTS: Results revealed among others the increasing rate of female youth’s involvement in restive acts and ineffective socialisation of today’s Nigeria child towards meeting societal expectations for gender roles as predisposing factors of youth restiveness. Study equally reveal the quality of socialisation education acquired at home and school as a potential predisposing factor of youth restiveness. Significant relationship exists between gender and agitation of restive youths as well as between educational exposure of youths and their agitation.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Recommendations include the need for parents to be alive to their responsibilities of inculcating into their children moral values and character training to strengthen their self-control skills and stabilise them against participation in youth restiveness
Principals’ leadership styles: Critical components to the security management in selected secondary schools in Mandera county, Kenya.
Get PDFIntroduction: Leadership styles of school principals plays a significant role in making the school a safe haven for students. This is because principals interact with the school community more often, and hence understand the school environment better.
Purpose: Determine the critical leadership style in the security management in Mandera County, Kenya
Methodology: The correlational study design was used as the framework that anchored the study. The survey targeted a population of 424 teachers, 46 principals, 460 BOM members and 13,387 students in Mandera County which makes a total population of 14,317. The sample size was 201 teachers, 40 principals, 210 BOM members and 373 students and thus narrowing the sample size to 824 respondents. The respondents were stratified, proportionately and randomly sampled. Questionnaires for teachers, semi- structured interview guides for principals and BOM members, and focus groups were adopted as instruments of collecting information. Before the main study, the researcher conducted a pilot study in schools that had characteristics similar to those of the sampled schools. Content validity was determined using expert judgment from specialist in the education management. Instrument reliability was established using the Cronbach alpha technique. Thematic analysis was used to analyze qualitative data, while quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics in terms of frequencies, means, and inferential statistics in terms of regression analysis.
Results: The results of this research show a prediction that for each increase in the leadership styles of secondary school principals, there was a 29.7% increase in security management.
Recommendation: Major recommendation is that school leadership need to adopt the correct management strategies to ensure security. Furthermore, the community where the school is located should be involved in matters of student security and safety
Influence of substance abuse on delinquent behaviours among secondary school students in Dutsin-ma local government area Katsina state, Nigeria
Get PDFPurpose: This study aimed at investigating the relationship between substance abuse and delinquent behaviour among secondary school students in Dutsin-Ma LGA, Katsina State.
Methodology: Three hundred and eighty-one (381) students were send as sample from three public schools in Dutsin-ma Local Government Area Katsina State. The data collected was analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) and t-test Statistical analysis was used to analyze the data collected. Substance Abuse Questionnaire (SAQ) and Delinquent Behaviour Questionnaire were Constructed and used in the data collection. The instruments was validated by educational experts while the Substance Abuse Questionnaire (SAQ) have reliability index of 0.81 and Delinquent Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) have reliability index of 0.76 respectively.
Results: The findings on substance abuse and delinquent behaviour revealed that r-value is 0.596 and P-value (0.000 <0.5). Therefore, indicated that there was moderate positive relationship between substance abuse and delinquent behaviour among Secondary School Students. On substance abuse, delinquent behaviour and gender, the result showed that p-value of 0.044 is less than 0.05 level of significance at 380 degrees of freedom indicating that there is a significant relationship between substance abuse and delinquent behaviour on the gender basis. On class level, the result revealed that p-value of 0.008 is less than 0.05 level of significance indicating that there is a significant relationship between substance abuse and delinquent behaviour.
Conclusion: The researchers therefore recommended that parents, school, society and government should joint hand in the supervision, monitoring, and guiding students both at home, school and on the streets as well as checkmating their associates and whereabouts
Relationship between parents’ attitudes, culture on academic performance of secondary school female students in Benue state, Nigeria
Get PDFIntroduction: Parents’ attitudes and culture are some of the variables used to measure academic performance of secondary school female students. Parental attitude shows a positive, negative or mixed evaluation of a person, place, thing or event by individual parents. Parents’ culture involves the way of life or behaviours that are characteristics of particular parent(s), social group and organization such as language, symbols values and norms.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between parents’ attitudes, culture and academic performance of secondary school female students in Benue State, Nigeria.
Methodology: The design was a correlational survey design. The population consisted of 13226 female students in 99 secondary schools. 378 female students were sampled out of the population based on Research Advisor (2006) Sample Size Table. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted which comprised of systematic, proportionate and purposive sampling techniques. “Parents Attitudes, Culture and Academic Performance Questionnaire” was validated and used. The reliability coefficient of the pilot study was done using Cronbach’s Alpha method and the test yielded a reliability coefficient of .80. Direct administration and collection of data from respondents was used. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested with linear regression and multiple regression at .05 level of significance.
Results: The study revealed that there was a significant relationship between parents’ attitudes, culture and academic performance of secondary school female students. It also revealed that parents’ attitude and culture jointly correlate with female students’ academic performance.
Recommendations: Counsellors should encourage parents and other concerned stakeholders through seminars to show positive attitudes towards the female students
Educational services and socio-economic status of internally displaced persons in Maiduguri, Nigeria: Implications for sociology of education
Get PDFIntroduction: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who involuntary migrate from their homes due to armed conflict or drought and disasters in such critical situations that the relocation of an affected population becomes inevitable. They are scourged by poverty and hunger, diseases, neglect and feelings of alienation, among others. Purpose: The study focused on effects of the Boko Haram insurgency on educational needs, educational services, and socio-economic interventions by the various NGOs and governmental actors involved in humanitarian assistance, coordinated by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)on the basis camp in Bakasi, Dalori and Farm center IDPs of Borno state, Nigeria.
Methodology: The survey design was used for the study. A descriptive study using pre-test and post-test treatment with a stratified sampling technique was used to select three (3) IDPs camps (IDPCs). The Hypotheses were tested using ANOVA was used to test the hypothesis. A total of 435 questionnaires were administered to the respondents, out of which 395 (Bakasi 116, Farm Centre 75, and Dalori 244) questionnaires were dully completed.
Result: The study reveals that socio-economic and educational services of the respondents and educational facilities on the basis of the camp had not differed.
Recommendation: Educational provisions should be made available where the children of the IDPs will be hosted and skills acquisition programmes to cater to skill development in different areas to enhance their economic status. There should effective synergy between security forces, Government, civil society NGOs, locals and internationals in order to build confidence and trust
Efficacy of Computer Assisted Multimedia Instruction on students’ academic performance and retention of ecology in some northwestern states, Nigeria
Get PDFIntroduction: The emergence of the computer in the 20th century, coupled with the development in its software design in the 21st century, made teachers and educational researchers to initiate the idea of incorporating computers and its gadgets or application software in teaching and learning.
Purpose: This study investigates the effectiveness of Computer Assisted Multimedia Instruction (CAMI) and school location on senior secondary school students’ academic performance and retention of Ecology in Some Northwestern States, Nigeria.
Methodology: The study adopted quasi-experimental design involving experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught using the CAMI package. The control group was taught using the Lecture method. The population of the study consists of 5331 SS 2 Biology students from 27 Science Secondary Schools in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States. The sampling procedures used are purposive and simple random sampling techniques. A total of 282 students were selected from six secondary schools in the three states (2 schools from each state). The instrument used for data collection was Ecology Performance Test (alternatives A and B). Alternative A was used for Pretest and Posttest while alternative B was used for Post-posttest. A reliability coefficient of 0.726 and 0.712 were obtained for alternatives A and B respectively after pilot study. The statistical tools used for data analyses includes Mean and Standard Deviations, independent t-test and ANOVA.
Results: The findings revealed among others that senior secondary school students taught ecology using CAMI performed higher than those taught with Lecture method. And school location has no effect on both academic performances of students and retention when CAMI method was used in teaching ecological concepts,
Recommendations/Classroom Implications: Biology teachers should incorporate Computer Assisted Multimedia Instruction alongside the Lecture method in teaching ecological concepts
Critique of strategies the Kenyan government is using to address ethno-regional inequalities in education
Get PDFIntroduction: Equal opportunities cannot be achieved without addressing inequalities in education. Consequently, the provision of equal opportunities in education is a step toward social equality. A constrained educational opportunity among the disadvantaged ethno-regions is cited as the root cause of this phenomenon.
Purpose: To investigate strategies employed by the Kenyan government in addressing ethno-regional inequalities in education in Kenya.
Methodology: This philosophical investigation utilized critique as a philosophical method of inquiry which is the intellectual disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
Results: The government has attempted to address ethno-regional inequalities in education through the constitution (2010), however, the culture of tokenism, which considers empowerment of marginalized groups and ethno-regions as one of the goodies to be dished to them as a favour still persists in Kenya. Most counties are inhabited by either one ethnic group or by dominant ethnic groups. This has, however, created a new problem of ethnic minorities within several counties. The government has also introduced FPE and FDSE, delocalization policy, the equalization fund, HELB however they have gaps that need filling to make them fully operational as tools of levelling down ethno-regional inequality. Regions where ruling elites come from have received more educational resources as compared to other areas.
Recommendations: Free Primary Education, Free Day Secondary Education and Higher Education Loans Board funds should be distributed equitably to address inequality, equalization fund should be made operational and managed by county governments