THE AWARENESS AND COMPLIANCE OF ANAMBRA WEST RESIDENTS TO CAMPAIGNS ON CHOLERA PREVENTION
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In this research on the “Awareness and Compliance of Anambra West Residents to Campaigns on Cholera Prevention”, the researcher sought to find out the residents’ level of awareness to the selected campaigns, their medium of exposure to campaigns on cholera prevention, their level of compliance to the selected campaigns and the extent to which the selected campaigns lead to positive behaviour change among the residents.In order to achieve these objectives, the researcher adopted the descriptive survey design, determined the samples (384) she studied using Meyer’s sample size determination formula and randomly selected them for this study from the 11 communities in Anambra West. She used a reliable and valid questionnaire that was formed using 5-point Likert Scale to rightly measure the research variables of this study and answer her research questions. Frequencies, tables, simple percentages, pie charts and the arithmetic mean scores of the responses of the respondents, were used to analyze the findings of this study which are that residents of Anambra West strongly agree that their level of awareness to the selected campaigns on cholera prevention is very high despite strongly agreeing that radio is their medium of exposure to campaigns on cholera prevention among others. Based on the findings of the researcher, she recommended that whenever it comes to enlightening the Anambra West residents on cholera prevention, the state government and the broadcast media should not fail to do it from the studios of radio and television mediums of mass communication they can be reached with, among others.
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