Academic Research Journal on Health Information Management

Vol. 5(2), pp. 26-35, June 2024

ISSN: 2734-2190

https://doi.org/10.14662/arjhim2024200

 

Full Length Research

 

 

Knowledge of Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia among Ladies and Women in Libraries in Nigeria

 

1ALLISON, Goodluck Okwudiri, 2OTUYALO, Modupe Atinuke, 3Ajayi, Taiwo Bosede and 4Awoyemi Robert Akinade

 

1Law Library, School of Law and Security Studies, Babcock University Corresponding author’s E-mail: allisonogoodluck45@gmail.com; +2348061377578 ORCID - 0009-0000-6325-2879 2Lagos State University of Science and Technology Ikorodu, Lagos, Library Department E-mail: tinux2003@yahoo.com 08052136469. ORCID - 0009-0007-4639-047X 3Library Department, Lagos State University of Science and Technology, Ikorodu, Lagos E-mail ajayi.t@lasustech.edu.ng, ORCID - 0000-0001-7337-9419 4Federal University of Technology, Akure. E-mail: raawoyemi@futa.edu.ng ORCID - 0000-0002-7630-0523  

 

Accepted 14 June 2024

Abstract

Abstract: Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia(P/E) has caused an alarming rate of death and complications on pregnant ladies and women during child bearing with its significant rate in developing countries like Nigeria. To investigate library ladies and women knowledge of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Nigeria. Survey research design was used for the study as self-structured questionnaire administered through google form was the instrument. 355 Association of women librarians in Nigeria formed the population of the study while descriptive statistics was used for the analysis. Findings showed that respondents are knowledgeable of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia. Their knowledge on warning and danger signs is high. Their level of knowledge of remedies to pre-eclampsia/eclampsia is very high. Despite how knowledgeable respondents may seem, it is certain that some of them do not know or have in-debt knowledge of it which makes it essential to create the knowledge to avert impending doom. Medical experts/personnel in other to save the future lives of ladies and women working in the libraries in Nigeria need to conduct seminars or symposiums in the libraries and equally add more advertisements via different social media outlets for greater knowledge of the endemic disease - pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.

 

Keywords: Eclampsia, Knowledge, Ladies, Libraries, Nigeria, Pre-eclampsia

Paper type: research