Resurgence of Air Borne Diseases in Public Universities: Students View of their Pervasive Effects

Abstract

This paper investigated the resurgence of airborne diseases in public universities: Students View of their Pervasive effects. This study was carried out in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided this study. The population of this study is 10,000 which comprised 4,500 males and 5,500 female students in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. Sample size of this study is 170. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 40 male students in two departments. On the other hand, 45 female students were selected in two departments, which gave a total sample size of 170 students selected as sample size in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.  Researcher developed questionnaire titled “resurgence of airborne diseases in public universities: Students View of their Pervasive effects” was used, with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists in Madonna University Okija campus, Anambra State. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of this study at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument is reliable for this study. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data while t -test of independent was used to test the hypotheses. Findings from this study revealed varied effects of airborne diseases on students, such as cough vomiting, headache, stooling and weight loss among others. The findings of this study revealed types of airborne diseases that possessed devastations to students such as,: influenza whooping cough, cold, tuberculosis, mumps anthrax diphtheria, covid-19, aspergillos among others. It was recommended students should stay away from the affected students. Also, government should equip public universities hospitals in Nigeria with drugs. This will help to reduce the spread of airborne diseases among others.