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    Factors Affecting Occupational Competence Among Health Sector Candidates In Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-10) Nebiye, Selamawit; Nega, Mulu (PhD)
    This research is aimed at finding out factors that affect health sector candidate’s occupational competency in Addis Ababa. The research design used for this specific study was descriptive in which both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The sample size was 312 candidates and was collected at three health science training centers and three health centers. In-depth interview was conducted at the initial stage with purposive sampling of candidates, trainers and supervisors whereas quantitative data of self administered questioner used for candidates. Ethical standards were maintained before participating respondent candidates. Factors as bottleneck for the competency of health sector candidates were found to be subjectivity, unfairness, and lack of efficiency of assessors. In addition, gaps were also observed on capacity of training center and cooperative trainings. Attitude of candidates has association with candidate’s competency. Recommendations are forwarded to involve a group of assessors in the assessment process, to engage candidates more on cooperative training with continuous follow-up and supervision. It is also recommended to equip training centers with practical materials and limit the number of candidates at cooperative training so that everyone can be engaged in all forms of practical instruments. Institutional assessment to be continued as the best practices at training centers.
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    Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Male Partners Involvement in Reducing Antenatal HIV Infection and PMTCT
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Birhanu, Tsehay; Nega, Mulu (PhD)
    Ethiopia is one of sub Saharan African counties has been facing highest number of mother to child transmissions of HIV. Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) program plays a big role in reducing the MTCT. Nevertheless its effectiveness depends on involvement of male partners considering the fact that men are decision makers in Ethiopia families. They make important decisions that have major impact on women’s health. Male partner involvement has been seen to increase uptake of PMTCT services and their involvement underscores their importance in reducing HIV infection in children. But the program strategy is facing challenge of low male partner involvement. The purpose of this study was to examine the knowledge, attitude and practice of male partner in ANC and PMTCT services. The mixed methods design was employed in this study. A cross-sectional study was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative methods on a systematically selected 126 male partners of pregnant mothers attending in ANC clinic in Addis Ketema sub city and in-depth interviews on 6 health workers working in ANC/PMTCT service providing health institutions of the Addis ketema sub city. Data was collected in the study using questionnaire and structured interview. Methods of data analysis included descriptive statistics, correlation matrix and logistic regression analysis. The result revealed that majority of the respondents (76.2%) good knowledge about HIV, MTCT and PMTCT and majority of them (60.3%) score above the mean which shows high male involvement. Male involvement was found to have a statistically significant association with good knowledge about PMTCT (AOR= 3.0, 95%CI: 1.30-7.1), attitude (AOR=2.6, 95%CI: 1.09-6.13) and low socio-cultural factors (AOR= 5.8, 95%CI: 2.0-17.1). The level of male partner involvement was 69(60.3%). Information socio-cultural belief and male –friendly PMTCT service should be provided to the Public.
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    The Relationship between Test Anxiety and Academic Performance at Addis Ababa University Institute of Technology
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Legesse, Amsalework; Nega, Mulu (PhD)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between test anxiety and academic performance of university students. This study employed the mixed methods approach to collect and analyze data. The population of the study was AAIT final year students. The participants of the study were 221 final year engineering students of which 172 were males and 49 females. The mean ages of the participants were 23.34. One scale that is Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI) developed by Professor Emeritus and Dr. Charles D. Spielberger (1980) was individually administered to the participants. Interview questions were also administered. Additionally document mining was employed. Pearson product moment correlation-test and one-way ANOVA were computed to analyze the data. The finding of the study indicate that test anxiety of university students is inversely and significantly correlated with their academic performance with weak relationship (r= -.171). The results suggest that the female university students reported significantly higher test anxiety level compared to their male students counterparts (t = 2.790; df=219;p = <0.001). Again the male university students achieved statistically insignificant difference in their GPAS as compared to the female students (t =-5.866, df =219, p 0.414). There is no significant difference in the academic performance (GPA) among the University students by their levels of test anxiety. More over a further research is recommended in order to examine the existence of gender differences in test anxiety and the impact of test anxiety on academic performance of students at different level of education