Browsing by Author "Assefa, Tamirat"

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    Participation of Gumuz Women in Integrated Functional Adult Literacy: The Case of Mandura Woreda
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Assefa, Tamirat; Fanta, Tlahun (Assistant professor)
    The purpose of this study was to assess the participation of Gumuz women in Integrated Functional Adult Literacy in Mandura Woreda. Descriptive survey research design was employed; both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through questionnaire, interviews and focus group discussin. The IFAL centers were selected using stratified random sampling.The facilitators and Gumuz women learners were selected using simple random sampling techniques. The IFAL coordinators, school cluster supervisors and FGD members are selected purposivelly. The questionnaires were filled by 122 Gumuz adult women learners and 28 facilitators. In addition, Six (6) IFAL program coordinators and two school cluster supervisors were interviewed and 14 FGD participants were employed. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.The result of the study indicated that Gumuz women’s participation was mainly a result of outside pressure rather than their own interest,lack of encouragement from the concerned local government,the enrollement of women was low,the rate of dropout was high and completion rate of the program was low. Based on this result, the study recommended that serious attention has to be given to employ various planned community awareness programs and allocating adequate budget to promote better Gumuz women education and providing of adequate facilities to the IFAL centers so as to improve Gumuz women education and overall effectiveness of the IFAL program in Mandura Wereda, Metekel Zone, Benishangul Region are among measures to be taken.Key words: Integrated Functional Adult Education, Gumuz women learning, Benishangul Gumuz
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    Participation of Gumuz Women in Integrated Functional Adult Literacy: The Case of Mandura Woreda
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Assefa, Tamirat; Fanta, Tlahun (Assistant professor)
    The purpose of this study was to assess the participation of Gumuz women in Integrated Functional Adult Literacy in Mandura Woreda. Descriptive survey research design was employed; both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through questionnaire, interviews and focus group discussin. The IFAL centers were selected using stratified random sampling.The facilitators and Gumuz women learners were selected using simple random sampling techniques. The IFAL coordinators, school cluster supervisors and FGD members are selected purposivelly. The questionnaires were filled by 122 Gumuz adult women learners and 28 facilitators. In addition, Six (6) IFAL program coordinators and two school cluster supervisors were interviewed and 14 FGD participants were employed. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.The result of the study indicated that Gumuz women’s participation was mainly a result of outside pressure rather than their own interest,lack of encouragement from the concerned local government,the enrollement of women was low,the rate of dropout was high and completion rate of the program was low. Based on this result, the study recommended that serious attention has to be given to employ various planned community awareness programs and allocating adequate budget to promote better Gumuz women education and providing of adequate facilities to the IFAL centers so as to improve Gumuz women education and overall effectiveness of the IFAL program in Mandura Wereda, Metekel Zone, Benishangul Region are among measures to be taken.Key words: Integrated Functional Adult Education, Gumuz women learning, Benishangul Gumuz
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    Prevalnce of Work Related Lower Back Pain and Assocaiated Factors among Welders in Selected Metal and Engineering Industries in Addis Ababa and Surrounding Towns
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Assefa, Tamirat; Kumie, Abera(PhD)
    Background: - Work related lower back pain is one of the commonest musculoskeletal disorders affecting all age groups including adults in work place. Welding Workers in Metal and engineering industry are commonly exposed to lower back pain. There is limited information on the prevalence and associated factors that leads to work related lower back pain. Objective: -The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of work related Lower Back Pain and to identify associated factors among welding workers Methods:- - Cross-sectional study design was implemented from March – April /2017 among 422 welders in selected metal and engineering industries in Addis Ababa and surrounding towns. An Amharic version adapted and pre tested Standard Nordic Musculoskeletal questionnaire was used to collect data using four data collectors and two supervisors. Data was entered in EPI info version 7 and analyzed using SPSS version 21. Frequency tables, graphs and descriptive summaries were used to describe the study variables and co-linearity test were done. To control the effect of confounding variables, multivariate logistic regression models with hierarchical entry of core variables was done. Variables with p-value less than 0.05 under 95% CI in final model were considered as significant Results: - The twelve month prevalence of work related lower back pain among this working group was 62.1 % with 95% C.I: (57.5, 66.7%). longer service years for more than 20 years [AOR (95% C.I): 3.58 (1.14-4.36), repetitive task within < 30 second [AOR (95% C.I): 2.26 (1.18-4.32)], not get training on OSHA [AOR (95% C.I): 4.4 (2.68 -7.20), not doing physical exercise regularly [AOR: 2.17, 95% CI ((1.36-3.46)], extended working hours for more than 8 hours [AOR (95% CI : 3.66 (2.06-6.51) were predictors for work related lower back pain. Conclusion and Recommendation: -The prevalence of work related lower back pain was higher among welding workers. Working for longer years, not performing repetitive tasks, extended working hours, absence of training on OSHA and regular physical exercise, were the most contributing factors in increasing lower back pain. Therefore the factory managers should under gone job rotation for those with higher service years to less loaded area, workers should done regularly physical exercises, get training on OSHA for all existing and new hired workers and MOLSA should enforce factory management to stick to ILO proclamation on healthy working hours to reduce risk of developing low back pain among welders Key words: - Welders, Work related lower back pain, Ethiopia