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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN IBADAN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA
No full textAbstract: During pregnancy, various physical and emotional changes occur, and these changes can affect the quality of life of pregnant women. Even in relatively uncomplicated pregnancies, these changes can significantly impact maternal health. The quality of life assessment during pregnancy can help determine the unmet needs of pregnant women and prevent negative health effects. The goal of this study was to identify factors that influence pregnant women's quality of life, ranging from demographic-obstetric, socio-economic and perceived social support. This study also aimed to determine the significant differences in maternal quality of life based on these factors.
The study was guided by the functionalist theory and socio-ecological model, which showed how individuals are part of a larger social system and states that the various factors that affect a person's health are interrelated. It states that the interactions between people, groups, and the environment can affect their well-being. A total of 519 pregnant women were selected from primary health care centers in 5 urban local government areas in Ibadan namely- Ibadan North, North West, South East, South West, North East and they responded to the questionnaires given. Quality of Life in pregnancy (Gravidarum) questionnaire and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and social support scale were used. With a p-value of less than 0.05 and a confidence interval of 95%, the data was analyzed using version 21 of SPSS.
The study’s showed that the quality of life mean score was 20.56 with a standard deviation of 8.347, showing that the quality of life of the women in this study was very good. The major predictors of quality of life were economic status (β= .492), food security (β= .514), partner support (β= -.151) and gestation age (β= .141). A woman, who lacks ample partner support, experiences household food insecurity and lacks financial security, will have a lower quality of life during pregnancy.
Improving the quality of life of pregnant women needs better identification of their difficulties and assistance whenever possible.
Keywords: Quality of Life, Pregnancy, Social support, Socio-economic status, Food security.
Title: FACTORS INFLUENCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN IBADAN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA
Author: Adeyanju Oluwatoni Deborah, Adeyanju Olufunmilayo D, Olubukola A. Wellington
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
Vol. 11, Issue 1, April 2023 - September 2023
Page No: 239-251
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 22-June-2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8070181
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“The West of Their Imagination”: Transnational impression management and Canadian migration in the Nigerian youth imaginary
No full textMigration of Nigerians to Canada for undergraduate education: Implications of the brain drain for development
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Worth a thousand words: Conducted energy devices, new media events, and narrative struggle
No full textBetween April 2003 and November 2008, 26 men died in Canada during events where a conductive energy device (commonly called Taser®) was deployed on them. The 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant, at the Vancouver International Airport, was recorded on a mobile phone and its footage uploaded to YouTube. The internet video, which documented Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers deploying a Taser on Dziekanski, was viewed by thousands around the world and traditional media organizations incorporated it into their coverage of the event. Unlike previous Taser-related deaths, the recording of Dziekanski’s death was an integral piece of the event’s anatomy and granted members of the mass public, as scrutinizers if not legitimate bystanders, entry into how it unfolded. Following Fiske, we treat the recording, its dissemination via the internet and broader news media, and its mass consumption as a “new media event”—one that articulated competing narratives of the device’s efficacy in print media coverage. Using a broad critical approach, we assess how groups like the RCMP, government officials, and victims made sense of the device pre- and post-recording via discourse analysis of published reports
"There will be a next time": Media discourse about an "apocalyptic" vision of immigration, racial diversity, and health risks
No full textThis study examines Canadian media coverage of a female visitor from the Congo, suspected of carrying a deadly disease, to show how “race” has been constructed and sustained in Canadian society. Critical discourse analysis of four major Canadian newspapers constitutes the data of the paper. Findings show that the media used the case to cause panic in the Canadian population by cross-articulating immigration and racial identity with health risks. Analysis of the media coverage reveals that anti-racial diversity discourse in the media is coded in non-race terms. We argue that news coverage of the event reinforces broader racial ideologies around immigration and risk that are capable of tapping into the anxiety of Canadians over the growing presence of racial minorities in Canada
Generating Weather Forecast Texts with Case based Reasoning
No full textSeveral techniques have been used to generate weather forecast texts. In this paper, case based reasoning (CBR) is proposed for weather forecast text generation because similar weather conditions occur over time and should have similar forecast texts. CBR-METEO, a system for generating weather forecast texts was developed using a generic framework (jCOLIBRI) which provides modules for the standard components of the CBR architecture. The advantage in a CBR approach is that systems can be built in minimal time with far less human effort after initial consultation with experts. The approach depends heavily on the goodness of the retrieval and revision components of the CBR process. We evaluated CBR-METEO with NIST, an automated metric which has been shown to correlate well with human judgements for this domain. The system shows comparable performance with other NLG systems that perform the same task
Building a Truly Distributed Constraint Solver with JADE
No full textReal life problems such as scheduling meeting between people at different locations can be modelled as distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Suitable and satisfactory solutions can then be found using constraint satisfaction algorithms which can be exhaustive (backtracking) or otherwise (local search). However, most research in this area tested their algorithms by simulation on a single PC with a single program entry point. The main contribution of our work is the design and implementation of a truly distributed constraint solver based on a local search algorithm using Java Agent DEvelopment framework (JADE) to enable communication between agents on different machines. Particularly, we discuss design and implementation issues related to truly distributed constraint solver which might not be critical when simulated on a single machine. Evaluation results indicate that our truly distributed constraint solver works well within the observed limitations when tested with various distributed CSPs. Our application can also incorporate any constraint solving algorithm with little modifications
Migration of Nigerians to Canada for higher education:: Student visa as a pathway to permanent residence
No full textThis study investigates the motivation for Nigerian migration to Canada for undergraduate education, with a focus on parent-sponsored undergraduate Nigerian students in Canadian universities. Using a qualitative research methods approach, the study shows that middle-class and upper-class Nigerians send their children to Canadian universities for undergraduate education because the student visa provides employment opportunities for international students, during and after studies, and Canadian permanent residence upon graduation. It is demonstrated in the paper that migration for higher education fits the neoliberal agenda of the current Canadian immigration policies and practices that target “designer im/migrants,” that is, im/migrants that are young, skilled, highly productive, educated, and self-sufficient. It is claimed throughout the paper that migration for higher education is not fortuitous for the parents and their wards and the Canadian state, as higher tuition paid by international students augments the declining public funding of post-secondary institutions in Canada and avails international students the opportunity of employment and permanent residence in Canada. The study in essence reveals the contradiction in the claim that the neoliberal state is a neutral entity as evidence shows that Canada’s post-secondary institutions implement neoliberal programs with the aid of the Canadian state
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