ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION DISSEMINATION AND USE TO POSTNATAL MOTHERS ON IMMUNISATION AS PREVENTION TO CHILDHOOD KILLER DISEASES BY LIBRARIANS IN FMCs NORTHCENTRAL, NIGERIA
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ABSTRACT
The study assessed information dissemination and use to post-natal mothers on immunisation as prevention to childhood killer diseases by librarians in Federal Medical Centres, North-central, Nigeria. The study was guided by eight research objectives, six research questions and two research hypotheses. The objectives of the study were to: identify the available information resources and services in federal medical centre libraries in North-central, Nigeria, investigate the level of library use by post-natal mothers in federal medical centres in North-central Nigeria, determine ways librarians disseminate information on immunisation, find out how information on immunisation is used by post-natal mothers, ascertain which killer diseases are prevented as a result of information disseminated by librarians and to find out the factors affecting information dissemination and use to post-natal mothers on immunisation against childhood killer diseases. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The total population for the study was seven thousand, seven hundred and sixty-four (7,764) librarians working in Federal Medical Centre Libraries and post-natal mothers attending federal medical centres in North-central Nigeria. A sample size of four hundred and nine (409) was used based on the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) Table for determining sample size from a given population. Observation checklist and questionnaire were used as the instruments for data collection; where 0.75 and 0.79 were obtained as the results for reliability test of the two sets of questionnaire. Four hundred and nine (409) copies of questionnaire were distributed, out of which three hundred and two (302) were filled, returned and used for the analysis. The analysis was presented using statistical tools such as frequency counts and percentages, mean and standard deviation. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used for analysing research hypotheses. The study revealed among others that the information resources available were textbooks on medical lines, professional journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, manuals and guides on immunisation, medical standards and guidelines, dictionaries, posters/handbills, while library services available were reference services, current awareness services, selective dissemination of information, intra and inter-library loan services, library orientation services in the medical centre libraries studied. The study equally revealed that medical librarians mostly disseminate information on immunisation to post-natal mothers through radio/television messages, workshops/seminars and outreach services/programmes. The major factors identified as affecting the information dissemination and use on immunisation to post-natal mothers as revealed in the study are inadequate fund to sponsor library immunisation programmes, erratic power supply for effective dissemination of information on immunisation, others include: inadequate fund to acquire the ICT equipment to disseminate the needed information to post-natal mothers, post-natal mothers lack of interest of seeking information on immunisation and lack of government intervention towards the awareness of information on immunisation to post-natal mothers. The study, therefore, recommended among others, that the Federal Government of Nigeria in conjunction with the management of federal medical centres should as a matter of urgency finance the purchase of health information resources in order to carry out effective services particularly on immunisation programmes to post-natal mothers as well as the general public.
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