Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic shutdown of tertiary institutions in Nigeria and globally following the lockdown of socio-economic activities. There is paucity of data on the effects of the pandemic on Radiography education in Nigerian universities especially in Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU) Nnewi campus. This prospective cross - sectional study was carried out using a structured questionnaire. One hundred and twenty- five questionnaires were distributed by the researcher to students, academic and non-academic staff of the department of Radiography, NAU, and one hundred was retrieved thereafter. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23 at 5% level of significance. The major effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Radiography education in NAU were poor access to education financing (97%), poor attendance to lectures (91%), poor academic performance after the lockdown (85%), better attitude to infection control (81%), disruption of academic calendar (88%), the rushing of many lectures over a short time and low assimilation/understanding among students (75%), the predominance of physical classroom lectures especially among undergraduates (55%), promoted online lectures especially among postgraduate students (45%), better hygiene culture (35%, 0.00076 = p < 0.05, adjusted α = 0.0032) ) and loss of interest in education (27.5%). However, only the enthronement of better hygiene culture had significant effects on Radiography education (p = 0.00076). The study concludes that the only significant and positive effect of COVID-19 pandemic on Radiography education in NAU was the enthronement of better hygiene culture.
Highlights
The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which was reported in Wuhan province in China in December 2019 caught the attention of the world by surprise as it spread across the borders of various nations without control [1]
Epidemiological and genetics researches indicate that the COVID-19 disease is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus- 2 (SARS – CoV -2) which started with an animal to human transmission followed by human to human transmission [2]
Since the index case of COVID-19 was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria in February 2020, the number of persons infected by the COVID-19 viruses has continued to rise daily and almost all the states in the Corresponding author: Michael Sunday Okpaleke Department of Radiography, and Radiological sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Okofia, Nnewi town,Nigeria
Summary
As of 11:13 CEST, 29 April 2021, there have been 148,999,876 confirmed cases of COVID-19 including 3,140,115 deaths reported to the WHO out of which the total confirmed cases in Nigeria was 164,448 and 2061 deaths [3]. This number is expected to rise globally with Africa and Nigeria bearing the greater burden of the disease as the Pandemic currently ravages the state of India and the rest of the world [3] with the mutation of more deadly stains of the virus.
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