Effect Of A Nurse-led Training Programme On Knowledge Of Risky Behaviours Among Motorcycle Operators

Effect Of A Nurse-led Training Programme On Knowledge Of Risky Behaviours Among Motorcycle Operators

Chapter One

Preface

Background to the Study

Transportation is a introductory and necessary element of all mortal bid, and has strong influence on the interrelations that live when people with common interests live together. It plays a major function in the uninterrupted actuality of civic communities by forming the base for commerce, vocation, rest and choice of hearthstone( Oluwaseyi, Edward, Eyinda, & Okoko, 2014). Once a nation truly decides to embark on a large scale development of its transportation system, it must insure that it not only improves access to the citizens ’ places of vocation and domestic areas, but in a safe and healthy manner, similar that the pitfalls of death and long- term disabilities are excluded or reduced to the barest minimum( Lukasik and Szymanek, 2012).

Nigeria has sought to develop its own transport system that would meet global norms. colorful motorized means of transportation have been employed, including motorcars,mini-buses, and taxicabs. These conventional means of public transportation were besieged by recreating and worsening problems similar as rapid-fire industrialization, inadequately planned urbanization, collapsing structure and road networks, population explosion despite precipitously dwindling number of vehicles leading to traffic, dragged staying and travelling times at machine stations, and shy security. This need made the demand for motorcycle advanced among numerous commuters who generally had to struggle to get transported to and from their domestic or sanctioned diggings( Olubomehin, 2012). It was due to the failure of the regular means of exchanging from one part to another that led to the emergence and perpetuation of the marketable motorcycle as an established mode of transportation in Nigeria. The motorcycle drivers are part of the communities in Nigeria and this has made access to them easier( Olubomehin, 2012). An estimated 70 percent of civic andsemi-urban Nigerian metropolises depend on marketable motorcycle for transportation within and around the city( Oluwaseyiet al, 2014).

The spread of the marketable motorcycle vocation was also fuelled by the fairly cheaper spare corridor, conservation costs and lesser energy frugality which have increased the patronage and made it a thriving vocation( Olubomehin, 2012). Motorcycle crashes continue to add to the adding casualty and endless- disability numbers annually. Encyclopedically, deaths linked with motorcycle accidents is about1.2 million while about 50 million injuries are linked with motorcycle accidents yearly, while about half of the people involved in fatal road business accidents are climbers, motorcycle drivers or commuters on motorcycles( Oluwaseyietal., 2014). It appears that the frequence of motorcycle- related business crashes is directly commensurable to the adding number of motorcycle drivers in thenation.Also, for every unit of distance travelled, motorcycles beget far more fatal and permanently- damaging accidents than regular vehicles( Olubomehin, 2012).

parlous geste is described as series of conditioning and cultures behaviours that makes a person to be vulnerable to injury that could beget disability( temporary or endless) or instant death depending on the inflexibility of the injury. It could also mean exposing oneself to peril or possibility of injury or death. This parlous geste among the motorcycle drivers has led to the labelling of the motorcycle as the most dangerous of all motorized means of transportation. Due to the prevailing severance and youths ’ underemployment in the country, and the relative economic nature of the business, it provides an easier andnon-formal means of livelihood for numerous jobless youths in the face of poverty and affectation. therefore the hunt for survival, economically and socially, has forced numerous jobless youths to come motorcycle drivers, indeed though a good proportion of them are frequently untrained or occasionally untrainable due to their poor position of knowledge( Onifade, Aduradola, & Amao, 2012). Unemployed youths now use marketable motorcycles for income generation by transporting passengers on roads that aren’t motorable in remote metropolises and townlets. This mode of transportation came popular and its acceptance began to climb steadily among the crowd.

marketable motorcycle also came popular due to the easy project in the frequently chaotic road surroundings and its low cost relative to four- wheeled vehicles. It now serves as one of the crucial means of transportation in Nigeria as it provides the citizens with a cheap transportation network. Indeed in remote townlets, the motorcycle drivers arrive at regular intervals and are used by all periods and classes of people( Abdussalam & Wahab, 2014). still, the spread of the marketable motorcycle vocation has also redounded in an upsurge in the number of accidents, some of which have redounded into loss of lives and endless disabilities in the survivors. Motorcycle crashes continue to add to the adding casualty and endless disability numbers annually. Encyclopedically, roughly1.2 million losses and 50 million injuries are linked with motorcycle accidents every time, while about half of the people involved in fatal road business accidents are climbers, motorcycle drivers or commuters on motorcycles( Oluwaseyietal., 2014). It appears that the frequence of motorcycle- related business crashes has increased in direct proportion to the adding number of commercially- operated motorcycles in the nation. still, it appears that for every unit of distance travelled, motorcycles beget far more fatal and permanently- damaging accidents than regular vehicles( Olubomehin, 2012), making the motorcycle the most dangerous of all mechanical means of transportation.

In a study in south- western Nigeria( Ogunmodede, Adio, Ebiejuwa, Oyetola, & Akinola, 2012), it was discovered that significant contributing factors to the causes of road business accidents among motorcycle drivers in Nigeria wereover-speeding, wrongover-taking, bad roads, unforeseen mechanical blights, ingestion of alcoholic potables,non-compliance with road safety trace canons,over-loading by carrying further than one passenger, sinking off a bend due to redundant speed or under- cornering, absence of functional cornucopia and headlamps, riding without crash helmet, and riding against the business. These regard for 95 of the causes of endless disability and death of motorcycle accident victims( Ogagaoghene, 2011, Ogunmodedeetal., 2012).

Motorcycle accidents, when they do, could lead to brain injury or severe trauma as the head violently hits the ground or other objects during the collision performing in upheaval and other severe conditions( Ogunmodede & Akangbe, 2013). numerous of these motorcycle drivers occasionally know that some of their conduct and parlous behaviours could affect in unwelcome issues, but they fail to act or do anything to remedy the situation, therefore making themselves and their passengers prone to certain detriment or death. There’s need for motorcycle drivers to be educated on the unwelcome instantiations of the parlous behaviours which causes increase in periodic motorcycleaccidents.Therefore, this study is designed to probe the effect of a nanny – led training on parlous behaviours among motorcycle drivers with the end of reducing to the barest minimum the grim statistics of motorcycle road crashes.

Statement of the Problem

With a record casualty rate of 162 deaths from road business accidents per 100,000 population, Nigeria is placed 191among the 192 world countries with poor and bad roads. The World Health Organization( WHO) also estimated that over one million people die every time in road accidents with not lower than 50 million people sustaining colorful grades of injuries from similar circumstances( FRSC, 2011).

Motorcycle drivers have a35-fold more liability of dying than the passenger auto inhabitants and8-fold threat of injury. Also, while utmost of the motorcycle crashes generally lead to injuries to the lower extremities, the fatal crashes are constantly associated with head injuries. parlous behaviours like alcohol abuse, smoking and medicine abuse are major contributory factors to motorcycle fatal crashes( Lin & Kraus, 2009). Oluwadiya and Fatoye( 2012) posited that the use of locally- brewed intoxicants by motorcycle drivers was another implicit cause of road crashes which could lead to instant death, loss of branches and significant profitable losses.

According to the FRSC, WHO estimated that should the present unhealthy trends in road business accidents continue, losses from business crashes would increase by a periphery of 65 between 2015 and 2020, exceeding the burden created by tuberculosis and malaria( FRSC, 2011). There’s therefore, an critical need for diving the imminence of motorcycle accidents in our terrain and this would bear amulti-faceted approach which health workers like nursers can give. thus, the indicator study is aimed at probing the effect of a nanny – led training programme on parlous behaviours among motorcycle drivers in Ado – Ekiti.

Ideal of the Study

The main ideal of the study is to assess the effect of a nanny – led training programme on the parlous behaviours of motorcycle drivers in Ado- Ekiti. The specific objects are to

assess the position of knowledge of motorcycle drivers on parlous behaviours in Ado- Ekiti;

give a training programme on parlous behaviours to motorcycle drivers in Ado- Ekiti and

assess the effect of the training program on parlous behaviours among motorcycle drivers in Ado- Ekiti.

exploration Questions

What’s the position of knowledge of parlous behaviours among motorcycle drivers in Ado-

Ekiti?

What’s the effect of the training programme on parlous behaviours among motorcycle drivers in Ado- Ekiti?

suppositions

H01There’s no significant difference in the knowledge position of motorcycle drivers about

parlous behaviours pre- andpost-intervention.

H02 There’s no significant effect of the training program on parlous behaviours among

motorcycleoperators in Ado- Ekiti.

Compass Of The Study

The study was demarcated to the registered motorcycle drivers within the capital megacity of Ekiti State. It also employed moralistic power- point lecture in the training of the motorcycle drivers. The experimenter demarcated the evaluation of the actors to the use ofpre-test andpost-test questionnaire administration, since this has proven to be a standard way of achieving the exploration objects.