Ghana Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (GJOHPERSD)

Assessment of private sector funding for professional football clubs playing in premier league in Northern Nigeria

Mohamed Baba Gambari — 2012-12-01

This study assessed private sector funding for professional football clubs playing in premier league in Northern Nigeria. To achieve this, questionnaire on private sector funding for professional football clubs was developed, validated and utilized for this study. Kitting of players, building of stadium, travelling, insurance and television rights constituted items in the questionnaire. A major hypothesis sought to find out if there were significant differences in private sector funding among the professional football clubs in Northern Nigeria as viewed by respondents. The questionnaire was administered on 90 respondents from the 6 clubs randomly picked from the 3 geo-political zones in Northern Nigeria (2 clubs from each zone). This gave us 30 respondents from each of the geo-political zones. Mean and Analysis of Variance were applied to describe and test the hypothesis. The result showed that private sector does not give meaningful funding to professional football clubs in Northern Nigeria. It was also found that there was significant difference in private sector funding for professional football clubs in Northern Nigeria playing in the Premier League. It is therefore recommended that professional football clubs in Northern Nigeria should seek for private sector funding for the activities of their clubs

Comparision of HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitude of nursing and college of education students in Kumasi

Eric Owusu — 2012-12-01

The purpose of the study was to compare HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes of nurses and teachers in training. A questionnaire was administered to a cross section of 200 nurses and teachers in training at Kumasi. Respondents were asked to provide information on HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes. The data obtained were presented and analysed using the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) version 16.0. Study results indicated that the majority of the respondents had a high level of HIV/AIDS knowledge, acceptance and positive attitude towards HIV/AIDS issues and patients. Nurses in training had higher HIV/AIDS mean knowledge score ((x=14.55) than teachers in training (x= 14.23). However, independent samples t-test analysis showed insignificant difference between knowledge scores of nurses and teachers in training (t (198=.95, significance level=0.05, sig. (2-tailed)=.33). Also, the nurses in training had higher HIV/AIDS mean attitude score (x= 14.54) than teachers in training (x=14.34). However, independent sample t-test showed insignificant difference between attitude scores of nurses and teachers in training (t (198) =.60, significance level = 0.05, sig (2-tailed) =.54). There was no statistically significant bivariate correlation between knowledge and attitude scores of respondents (r(198)=0.01, significance level=0.05,sig.(2-tailed)=.89). The study recommends that future HIV/AIDS prevention strategies and campaigns in schools and colleges should focus not only on HIV/AIDS knowledge but also on developing and maintaining safe sexual behavior and positive attitudes towards HIV/AIDS issues and patients.

Knowledge of transmission patterns of HIV/AIDS among students of tertiary institutions in Kwara State, Nigeria

O. 'Lanre Olaitan — 2012-12-01

This study investigated knowledge of transmission patterns of HIV/AIDS among students of tertiary institutions in Kwara State, Nigeria. A proportionate sampling technique was used to select 700 students from five tertiary institutions in Kwara State. The hypotheses formulated were tested using Chi-square and analysis of variance (ANOVA) at oc = 0.05 level of significance. In the findings, calculated X2 value of 124.69 revealed that the students have adequate knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission through sexual contacts, also calculated x2 value of 67.83 revealed that students have adequate knowledge that HIV/AIDS can transmit through mother to child and the ANOVA result of 3.52 showed that students of various tertiary institutions in Kwara State have varied knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission in health care setting. Fisher least significance difference was used as multiple range comparison test to identity where the significant difference between and within the group of students. Based on the findings, it was recommended that AIDS education to include STDs, sexuality and reproductive health education should be made compulsory and be incorporated into the syllabi and curricula from primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria among others.