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Information and communication technology (ICT) continues to rapidly progress and is integrated in practically allhealth care professional and research fields including nursing. It is essential that nurses and nursing students acquire competences to successfully utilize ICT in their education and practice to benefit patients and gain more satisfaction from their work. This study was conducted to explore the Challenges of Information and Communication Technology Utilization among Undergraduate community Health Nursing Students in Tanta University, Egypt. A descriptive cross sectional design was used for the study where the entire 4 th year students who registered with community health nursing departments were recruited (600 students) to participate. A response rate of 84% (504 students) was recorded. A validated structured questionnaire was used for data collection over a period of four weeks. The data collected were organized, tabulated and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. The results indicated that the challenges of utilizing ICT as stated by the students include slow/poor internet speed/access (84.3%) and lack of ICT facilities (80.4%) especially in the rural communities. Other challenges as stated by the respondents are difficulty in accessing the required information (68.7%) and expensive internet subscription (68.5%). The study concluded that the utilization of ICT among the respondents was associated with challenges. A significant challenge is the access to the required information and the lack of ICT facilities. It is therefore recommended that the faculty and the university management ensure adequate provision and maintenance of ICT devices to the students with corresponding accessibility.

Background: Vaccine preventable diseases are major causes of child mortality which could have been prevented by routine immunization. Many children are not completely immunized due to non-compliance by their parents.Aim: This study explored the determinants of parental compliance with routine childhood immunization schedule in Nassarawa state, Nigeria.Methodology: An explanatory mixed method design was used in which 387 parents of children aged 12 to 23 months were recruited using multistage cluster sampling technique. A validated interviewer administered questionnaire (IAQ) was used to collect quantitative data. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) guide was used to collect qualitative data. Quantitative data was analysed using frequency tables and multinomial regression while qualitative data was analysed using content analysis.Results: Findings showed that nearly 60.0% of the parents have low knowledge of routine immunization. Only one quarter (24.5%) of the surveyed children were completely immunized. Multinomial regression test showed that there was a significant association between the level of education of parents (β =0.815, P<0.05), number of children (β =-0.424, P<0.05) and parents knowledge of immunization (β =-3.735, P<0.05) with the completion of childhood immunization. The higher the values of the age and number of children delivered in a formal health care facility the higher the probability of them being completely immunized. Conclusion:The study concluded that level of education, knowledge of immunization by parents, attendance of antenatal clinics by mothers and delivery of the child in a health facility are the determinants of parental compliance with routine childhood immunization.

The recapitalisation of Nigerian banks improved capital market performance and economic growth. However, economic recessions led to a decline in capital market activities and economic growth. Therefore, this study assessed the influence of capital market performance on economic growth in developing countries for the period 2012 to 2022 using empirical evidence. The specific objective of the study was to examine the impact of market capitalisation on the real gross domestic product (GDP) in developing nations. Related and relevant literature was reviewed for the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical framework for the study. The study employed a qualitative approach using descriptive synthesis to evaluate the results of the impact of capital market performance on economic growth in developing countries using empirical evidence from 2012 to 2022. The analysis revealed that 30% of empirical results from the capital market and economic growth studies in developing nations are not consistent with the apriori expectation. The study concludes that using different variables and approaches for time series analysis produces inconsistent results in developing countries. The study recommended encouraging the financing of companies through domestic capital formation in both capital and money markets. There is also a need for harmonising the approach for consistency of findings in capital market research.

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