AIYEGUSI MONSURAT OLASUMBO

Broadcasting

At the Broadcasting department office

Appointment on Visitation important

Topic: MOTHER-DAUGHTER COMMUNICATION IN THE ADOPTION OF SANITARY PAD AMONG SELECTED JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL GIRLS IN LAGOS STATE

Description: Mother-child bonding originates from birth as a nutrition and succor provider for the infant leading to a mother being the first companion and educator a child recognizes. Previous studies abound on menstrual care practices, sexual/reproductive health and menstrual hygiene management in schools but there are sparing studies on mother-daughter communication on sanitary pad adoption. This study therefore sought to investigate the perceived influence of mother-daughter communication on the adoption of sanitary pad among selected junior secondary school girls in urban and peri-urban Lagos State. The Social Learning Theory underpinned this study while the mixed method design was adopted. Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven 377 pubertal girls in 12 junior secondary schools using multi-stage, stratified and purposive sampling techniques were assessed through survey. Six sessions of Focus Group Discussion FGD were also held with 54 pubertal girls in six of the schools. Six mothers, 8 key informants comprising 2 school principals, 2 vice principals, 2 teachers and 2 counsellors were also purposively interviewed. Data gathered was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively using SPSS version 23, t-test and thematic mapping. Findings show that 83.8% urban mothers talk to their daughters regularly about menstruation before, during and after menarche through social media while peri-urban 66.7% mothers adopt text messages but urban and peri-urban mothers transmit the culture of secrecy about menstruation to their daughters through face-to-face conversation IDI&FGD . Pubertal girls living with urban and peri-urban foster parents are neglected on menstrual related issues KII & FGD . Also, 51.1% pubertal daughters in urban areas prefer sanitary pad and knew about it through donations 66.7% while 87.5% girls in peri-urban areas prefer reusable cloth and knew about it through advertisements 52.9% . Modernity and suitability for all kinds of menstrual flow influence urban and peri-urban effective mother-daughter communication on the adoption of pad IDI & FGD

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (COMMUNICATION STUDIES)	BROADCASTING, LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, OJO	2023

EVERYDAY PROBLEM AND THEIR RESOLUTIONS IN HUMAN HABITATION-A SLICE FROM VIDEO SKITS

Skits are short comedy sketches or pieces of humorous writing or a short informal performance intended to educate or inform. Skits however are recent phenomenon or development and are mostly entertainment in nature with attributes of edutainment and infotainment and story-telling devices woven around every day problems of humans in their natural settings, these include hunger, marriage, relationships, ailments, occupation, language, music, poverty, religion, challenges, infertility, sex, economy, child upbringing and/or several others proffering solutions to them. The objectives include the following: 1 To examine the use of video skits in addressing everyday problem 2 to identify the type of everyday problems in human habitation 3 To identify video skits content creators manner of resolution of everyday problems. Cultivation and Uses and Gratification Theories form the theoretical underpinning of this research. The study made use of the quantitative study design with content analysis method, coding sheet and personal observations were employed in carrying out the investigations. The population of study was all video skits from October to July 2023 but 10 video skits from 10 popular video skits content creators on Tiktok, Facebook and Instagram were purposively selected. Video skits from social media were downloaded, observed then analyzed through descriptive statistics such as frequency counts and simple percentage frequency. Video skits that were assessed addressed everyday problem. The type of everyday problem video skits content producers include: marital challenge, customer-client misunderstanding, fornication, tenant-landlord dispute, unhealthy food consumption, misinformation, fake lifestyle, gossips, commercial driver/commuters clash and maltreatment. Resolution of everyday problem includes reconciliation, civic mediation/ intervention, healthy eating habits using humor, drama, interpersonal communication, interview etc. Video skits address everyday problems and resolutions in human habitation to a great extent

AIYEGUSI MONSURAT is a Lecturer II at the Department of Broadcasting

AIYEGUSI has a Ph.D in COMMUNICATION STUDIES from BROADCASTING, LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, OJO