GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study sought to assess architectural design strategies for prevention and control of Covid-19 infection in health care system: The health security implications in Akwa Ibom State. Correlation survey design was adopted in the study and the study was conducted in Akwa Ibom State. The population of the study comprised architects, medical doctors, nurses, mid-wives and lab technicians. Based on the experience of the respondents and their ability to provide the needed information, purposive sampling technique was used to select 40 architects, 30 medical doctors, 20 nurses, 20 mid-wives and 20 lab technicians, giving a total of 130 respondents used for the study. The Instrument titled “Architectural Design Strategies for Health Care System Questionnaire (ADSHCSQ)” was used. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out by an expert in test and measurement/evaluation from University of Uyo to ensure that the instrument was accurate for the study while Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument which generated a reliability coefficient of 0.80. The value was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data obtained to descriptive statistical analysis used to answer the research questions and simple regression used for test of the hypothesis. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels. The study revealed that there is very high level of covid-19 infection in Akwa Ibom State. The study also proved that architecture play important roles in building healthy environments including Design for Social Distancing, Design to enhance Natural Ventilation, Design to Enhance Daylight or Sunlight, Design with Adaptive Finishing Materials and Construction Methods and Flexible design with sustainability features. Finally, the result proved that there is significant effect of architectural design strategies on effective safety and protection of human lives in Akwa Ibom State. One of the recommendations was that governments should enact federal legislation to encourage state and local governments to adopt and enforce healing design building codes as a key strategy for making communities more resilient to disease