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Awareness And Practive Of Health Promotion For Women In Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, P. E. Samson-Akpan, I. Akpabio, Ekaete Asuquo, O. B. Edet
Awareness And Practive Of Health Promotion For Women In Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, P. E. Samson-Akpan, I. Akpabio, Ekaete Asuquo, O. B. Edet
School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa
Aim: A descriptive survey was undertaken to ascertain nurses’ awareness and level of practice of health promotion among women in Calabar.
Background: Women’s health is affected by array of factors; nurses could have a major impact in increasing women’s capacity to exercise increased control over their lives and determinants of health.
Method: One hundred and thirty six nurses drawn from the ante-natal clinics of primary, secondary and tertiary health facilities in Calabar participated in the study. A questionnaire with a content validity index of 0.91 was used for data collection. The test-retest reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was (r) 0.79. …