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Sources and Deficiency Diseases of Vitamin A: Awareness among Households in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
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The study assessed the knowledge of households about sources and deficiency diseases of Vitamin A in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. A multi-staged sampling procedure was used to select 457 respondents. Data were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire and analyzed descriptively. Results show that less than half of the population are informed about all five selected sources (43.11%) and all three deficiency diseases (45.73%). The study reports a gap of one source and two deficiency diseases, between the uninformed and the informed, respectively. Furthermore, the results indicate an exact gap of three and two selected sources and deficiency diseases, respectively, of vitamin A between the uniformed and informed. Intensity of the margin implies that the information gap is equally critical for selected sources; and more critical for deficiency diseases comparing the mean and two-thirds of the mean as critical index, respectively. The study therefore, recommends awareness campaigns to bridge the gap between the uniformed and informed; specifically emphasizing beef/liver, sweet potatoes and yeast as sources; and risk of diarrhoea and measles as deficiency diseases.
