Journal of Research Administration

Vijitha Raj V S1, G Jasmine Joy Bell2, Dr. Arya M S3 PDF

The study was a cross-sectional observational study by using a self-administered questionnaire. The study was carried out for duration of 6 months within the community pharmacies of Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. In our study a total 120 community pharmacists were contacted and requested to fill out the questionnaire through the direct visit of each community pharmacy. Out of these respondents 71(60.2%) were females and 47(38.9%) were males. The age group 30-39 years constituted the highest proportion (39.8%). A total of 84 out of the 118 community pharmacist are never dispensed antibiotic without a prescription. Regarding the type of antibiotics the pharmacist would really dispensed to a patient suffering from suspected bacterial infection without a prescription. Penicillin (42.6%) was the most selected class antibiotic followed by Macrolides (29.2%) and Cephalosporin (17.3%). We found no statistical significance between age, sex, qualification and experience with knowledge, attitude and practice scores. Our study finding shows that community pharmacists of Thiruvananthapuram district of South Kerala majority have excellent scoring in knowledge and very good attitude and practice scoring. In our study there was no association was seen between knowledge, attitude and practice scoring with age, sex, qualification and year of experience and the main reason for dispensing antibiotics without prescription is that pharmacists have good awareness about antibiotic use. It was also found that lack of attitude scoring is due to lack of knowledge of community pharmacist antibiotic use and resistance and penicillin are most commonly dispensed antibiotics without prescription. 

Dr. P. K. Muthukumar PDF

Aims: The study analyzed the social support available of the parents of children with intellectual disability. This study used a descriptive approach with a cross-sectional approach. This study aimed to identify and explore social support in parents with intellectual disabilities children in Cuddulore district, Tamilnadu. Methods: The samples studied were 81 parents as a primary caregiver and lived with intellectual disabilities children, taken by purposive sampling. Social support was measured using a Social Support Questionnaire that had been modified and developed using Sarafino theory with alpha Cronbach values of 0.728. The questionnaire includes the domain of emotional support, instrumental support, informational support, and award/assessment support. Results: The data indicated that parents mostly have social support in high categories (70.4%). Among them; that majority (93.8%) of the respondents received support from a spouse (husband/ wife); 71.6 per cent of respondents received support from parents (grandparents of intellectual disabilities children). Then 67.9 per cent of parents perceived support from friends (fellow parents of children with intellectual disability).Conclusion: It can be concluded that the present study exhibited that the parents of children perceived social support from spouses, family, friends, peer groups and other health workers. Parents need more support for access to health information, praise or appreciation from those around them and professionals. Suggestion: So, the study suggested that the general public also should need to support to the parents of children with disability.    

1 Yakmut, Al-Hassan Saleh, 2 Owa, Funmilola Temitope 3Abubakar, Idris Ayokanmi PDF

The vast North West’s weakly regulated stretch of 1,497km international land border with Sahelian countries; a conduit for proliferation of arms, transnational terrorism, human trafficking drug trafficking, jihadist incursion, has found a nexus with North West region of Nigeria whose poverty indicators, unabated tension between sedentary Hausa farmer and the nomadic Fulani herders. All these are predictors for kidnapping, armed banditry, gang raping, village and markets raids, which are done with reckless abandonment while the already overwhelmed law enforcement agencies battle to no end even as economic diplomacy, peace, socialization and political stability of the country remain extensively threatened and at its lowest ebb. It is in an effort to outthink this overwhelming background that this study sets out to examines, using the state fragility theory, the tackling insurgency through policing strategy and techno driven surveillance as an approach for the North West, Nigeria. The study engaged survey research design and purposive sampling technique to obtain relevant data from law enforcement agencies and civil society involve in prosecuting the war against terror in North West of Nigeria. Findings from the study showed that a change in policing strategy from the present armchair, reactive and combative policing strategy to Intelligence Led policing strategy and deployment of techno driven surveillance has positive and significant effect in tackling insurgency, Jihadism incursions, crime and criminalities in the North West of Nigeria.  

Anwesha Sen1 & Sushil Kumar2 PDF

There have been transformational changes across the Media Education industry especially after COVID-19 pandemic and the boom in E-learning platforms and skills. While Media studies have been a subject usually taught in classrooms (face to face learning), the recent changes in the education industry and the need for skill-based learning have given rise to students and teachers getting involved in e-learning. While courses are being available through platforms like Udemy, Coursera etc, colleges and universities also got involved in teaching courses in many different fields of media through the online course. While many studies were being done on students, research was necessary on the other stakeholders who are not only changing the industry but also were bringing in the change. The study aims to identify and understand the transformational changes in recent times and how e-learning has impacted the development of skills of students entering the Media industry in India using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The study focused on important stakeholders in the e-learning industry, media academia and the media industry in India who are also part of the change. The research was conducted with 30 experts from the e-learning, media academia and media industry using semi-structured interviews for the collection of data and information. The conclusions were categorized under seven subheads referred to as “superordinate themes” based on the answers of the experts.  

Mohammed Ahmed 1; Abebe Ejigu2; Habtamu Endris3 PDF

This study focusses on examines range of Ethiopian economic liberalization and its contribution to privatized manufacturing firms in relation to export performance. To achieve these objectives, both primary and secondary data used.  Cross-sectional data collected from 114 fully privatized manufacturing firms through key informant approaches. Seven scaled structured questionaries’ were use and analyzed by using Structural equation modeling (SEM). The model tells that all the predicting variables in the hypothesized model were significant at p < 0.05 and this shows that all constructs of privatization affects export performances under all competitive priority. The latent variables, law and order (P= 0.000), incentive shames (P= 0.000), trade openness (P= 0.001), significantly affect export performance.  The finding shows that economic liberalization stimulates export performance under firm’s competitive priority an intervening role. The competitive priority of firms comprises cost, flexibility and quality priority. Those measures confine arouses export performance in terms of both quantitative (market share, profit) and subjective measures (export satisfaction) indicators. The extent of law and order (LaO), commitment towards financial and non-financial incentives (InsS) and the overall trade openness (TraO) use as liberalization indicator. In addition, evidence revealed that a more competitive priority of firms (cost, flexibility, and quality) determine export performance and competitiveness in international market.