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R A Olade

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PubMed1989

Perception of nurses in expanded role.

This is a study aimed at identifying nurses' responsibilities and the perceptions of consumers of health care regarding the expanded roles of nurses in the delivery of primary health care through institutional clinics. Questionnaires were distributed to various categories of workers and students who were receiving care in the selected clinics attached to higher educational institutions, in order to determine the acceptability of nurses in expanded role. Responses of consumers revealed a high degree of acceptability of the nurse's expanded role, with Users scoring higher than Non-users. All the nurses involved had a positive perception of their role which they felt could be improved with the provision of necessary equipment and refresher courses at regular intervals. Other factors necessary for enhancing their role in the provision of primary health care are highlighted.

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PubMed1983

Attitudes towards mental illness: effect of integration of mental health concepts into a postbasic nursing degree programme.

A 2-year assessment of the effect of integrating mental health concepts into a postbasic nursing degree programme was done with two classes of students who had minimal psychiatric preparation in their diploma programme. These two groups of students were studied as they progressed from first to second year and from second to third year at the 3-year postbasic nursing degree programme at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. A questionnaire on Opinion about Mental Illness (OMI Scale) was used to note if there was any change in the five attitudinal factors measured, as these students progressed from one class to the next. Results show changes in both groups in terms of their authoritarianism and social restrictiveness.

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PubMed1979

Attitudes towards mental illness: a comparison of post-basic nursing students with science students.

Two groups of Nigerian university students were compared in terms of their attitudes towards mental illness. Responses on the OMI scale questionnaire items on attitudes towards mental illness were examined. Subjects were 37 registered general nurses from the Faculty of Medicine and 15 science students from the Faculty of Science. Differences between the nurses and science students not attributable to age were observed in Factors A : Authoritarianism, B: Benevolence and D: Social restrictiveness. The nurses scored lower on the above mentioned factors while they scored higher on Interpersonal etiology and Mental hygiene ideology. Also intercorrelation between the five factors was done. Positive correlation was found between Authoritarianism and Social restrictiveness and also between these two factors and Benevolence.

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A survey of nursing research in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, nurses are not considered to be sufficiently educated to understand the abc's of research methodology much less to participate in or conduct research. This lamentable fact was made at a conference on "The Role of Research in Nursing" in Nigeria. This was in 1973. Has the situation changed since? For lack of any study or documentation on the topic, and to be able to report on the status of nursing research in Nigeria for the ICN-sponsored Task Force on International Research meeting at end April-May, Rosaline Olade decided to conduct her own exploratory study. While the responses shed light on the situation in both Nigeria and the African region, they also sound only too familiar in countries where nursing is beginning to be recognized at the university level.

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Evaluation of the Denver Developmental Screening Test as applied to African children.

The Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) is a tool widely used by nurses in advanced countries for screening developmental delays in children. In a pilot study involving African children from age one month to six years in urban and suburban areas of Ibadan, Nigeria, results of screening with this tool identified many apparent delays in children from two to four years old in the area of language acquisition. It is probable that family background, in addition to sociocultural environment, may be responsible for most of the delays. A large-scale study to standardize this useful screening instrument to the norms of children in developing countries is suggested.

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