COMBATING POOR HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS THROUGHPARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION: A STUDY OF LINDY ACADEMY, KADUNA
COMBATING POOR HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS THROUGHPARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION: A STUDY OF LINDY ACADEMY, KADUNA
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2014-06
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GILBERT, CLIFFORD AYABOWEI
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As a result of one’s interaction with society his behaviour may affect not only him, but also those
around him. This is the case with negative sanitary behaviours. There are people who live
healthy lifestyles whose health is jeopardized by those with poor sanitary behaviour, making
them vulnerable to some of the diseases which they would have been able to prevent. When
these two sets of people are actively engaged in participatory communication from childhood on
proper hygiene or sanitary behaviour, the condition is likely to improve. And although
participatory approaches to development communication have steadily gained recognition in
recent years, in Nigeria people do not get the opportunity to fully participate in hygiene /health
issues. This negatively impinges on their effective uptake of hygiene messages, thus leaving
them poorly equipped to address such issues and make them more susceptible to preventable
diseases. It is the opinion of this work that in order to overcome this challenge, it is needful to
start a behaviour reorientation programme from an early age, so that people will grow up with
healthy behaviours. Therefore the researcher undertook a behaviour change communication
(BCC) workshop that was participatory, using the ACADAE model, to engineer behaviour
change in relation to poor sanitation/hygiene in the students of Lindy Academy (secondary
section), in Kaduna.
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THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER
OF ARTS (M.A.) IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION
JUNE, 2014
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COMBATING,, HYGIENE,, BEHAVIOUR,, SECONDARY SCHOOLS,, THROUGH PARTICIPATORY,, COMMUNICATION:, STUDY,, LINDY,, ACADEMY,, KADUNA.