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Predictors Of Risky Health Behaviours Among Secondary School Students With Hearing Impairment In South -West, Nigeria
No full textLike every adolescent, students with hearing impairment engaged in Risky Health Behaviour (RHB) such as alcohol consumption, cigarette consumption, drug abuse, inadequate physical activities, unhealthy dietary behaviour as well as indiscriminate sexual acts. These activities have therefore become issues of public health concern. Previous studies have focused majorly on the academic performance, emotional stability and psychological adjustment of students with hearing impairment than on their RHB and its socio-economic predisposing factors. This study, therefore, examined social (discrimination, home, health awareness, peer influence and false belief) and economic (poverty and purchasing power) factors as predictors of RHB among Secondary School Students with Hearing Impairment (SSSHI) in south-west, Nigeria.. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 980 students with hearing impairment from some secondary schools in southwest Nigeria. Five hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics, multiple regression. Social and economic factors had significant composite contribution to RHB (F(7,973)=22.80; R=0.37) and accounted for 17.0% of the variance of RHB. The relative contributions of the independent variables to risky health bebehaviour are: Peer influence (β=0.25), Purchasing power (β=0.23), discrimination (0.15), poverty (β=0.10) home (β=0.08), false belief (β=0.07) )and health awareness(0.02). Unfriendly home situation, negative peer influence, false beliefs, poverty and low purchasing power predicted risky health behaviour among secondary school students with hearing impairment Therefore, government should organise periodic health and sensitization programmes on health issues for students, parents and teachers
Determinants of Premarital Sex among In-School Adolescents in Ibadan South West Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria
No full textGlobally, the persistent occurrence of premarital sex among adolescents has become a publichealth problem. As such, the phenomenon has constituted burdens to various countries,particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to solve the problems that are associated withpremarital sex, empirical studies focused more on both in and out of school adolescents; withlittle concentration on adolescents from single sex schools. This study therefore, examinedDeterminants of Premarital Sex among In-School Adolescents in Ibadan South-West LocalGovernment Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey design. Therespondents were selected from two single sex schools in Ibadan South-West Local GovernmentArea of Oyo State. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were adopted inselecting 100 students from each of the schools; with a total of 200 students. The sampledrespondents were 100 males and 100 females. Determinants of Premarital Sex (r=0.73)and Premarital Sex (r=0.72) scales were used for data collection. Four hypotheses weretested at 0.05 alpha level. Data were analysed using percentages and frequency counts aswell as inferential statistics of linear regression and t-test. The findings of the study revealedthat, there was a significant contribution of each of the tested independent variables topremarital sex. Parenting style (â=0.57), peer influence (â=0.62) and parental economicstatus (â=0.61) independently and significantly determined premarital sex; while there wasa significant difference in pre-marital sex between male and female in-school adolescents(t=2.871, df=198, p=0.005). It was concluded in this study that, parenting style, peer influence and parental economic status independently determined premarital sex among inschool adolescents in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. Itwas recommended among others that, adolescents should be enlightened periodically on thehealth implications of premarital sex
