PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC) BUILDINGS IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT).

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dc.contributor.authorOLADOJA, BAYONLE IBRAHIM
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-08T08:24:51Z
dc.date.available2016-04-08T08:24:51Z
dc.date.issued2015-09
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF QUANTITY SURVEYING AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractExisting studies have established that the physical characteristics of buildings have significant influence on occupants’ satisfaction. However, studies has shown that the conventional ways that public hospital buildings in Nigeria are designed have contributed to stress, depression and anxieties because of loss of privacy, control over eating and sleeping times, and noise. And in addition contributed to dangers, allergies and other acquired infections called Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) to patients and staff. This study assessed the performance of Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) buildings which is identified to be the appropriate settings to tackle over 90% of the major causes of morbidity and mortality due to its proximity to about two-thirds of Nigerians. The objectives of this study were to; identify those standard performance criteria of healthcare buildings that aids healing of patients and positively influence users of PHC buildings; evaluate the perception of users on the performance of PHC buildings and outline appropriate steps to remedy the identified gaps to match up with the global standards. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in six PHC buildings across the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria. A purposive sampling technique was used to select a total of 334 samples (patients, medical staff and visitors’) from the target population. Data were collected with the aid of an adapted version of - Achieving Excellence Design Evaluation Toolkit (AEDET) questionnaires. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to present simple mean, standard deviation and test for statistical significance of the results. Ten criterion, categorized into three criteria namely; functionality, build quality and impact were identified as the required standards for healthcare building performance. They aid in the healing of patients, improve the productivity of medical staff and attract patronage from visitors. The results show that users’ perceptionen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7628
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectPERFORMANCE EVALUATION,en_US
dc.subjectPRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC) BUILDINGS,en_US
dc.subjectFEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT).,en_US
dc.titlePERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC) BUILDINGS IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT).en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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