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Background Child car-passenger safety practices remain low in Nigeria. We present findings from the formative phase of a project to deliver an m-health intervention on child-passenger safety to mothers/caregivers attending selected child-immunisation clinics in Ibadan. The aims were to describe: current legal provisions and awareness of child-passenger safety measures, acceptability of a mobile-phone intervention to improve child-passenger safety and availability and costs of standard age-appropriate child seats. Methods Twenty-three key-informant interviews [with enforcement officers (4), doctors (3), teachers (3) and mothers of infants and school-age children (11)] and a market survey were conducted. Data were analysed with ATLAS.ti. Results Current laws do not directly address child safety although the Highway Code stipulates that child-passengers should be restrained in age-appropriate seats and those ≤12years should sit at the back. Most interviewees were aware of the need to use infant seats but not of the need for child-and booster seats. Some barriers to the use of child carseats were lack of knowledge of its importance and cost. Interviewees felt enactment and enforcement of laws and enlightenment were necessary for compliance. Acceptance of a mobile-phone intervention, (although not necessarily a mobile application), was very high. Participants stated that it was cost-effective and convenient. Interviewees suggested the use of calls, bulk SMS, twitter® and facebook®. Twelve retail stores selling items for children were visited. Most stores had about two to three seats each because of low demand. Barely-used and brand new age-appropriate seats were available although infant seats were mostly seen. Most seats had appropriate standard labels. One barely-used booster seat (cost:$30) was seen. Costs of infant seats ranged from $25 – $180 and toddler seats, $30 – $405. Conclusions Findings indicate that an m-health intervention is acceptable and would be timely in improving car-passenger safety practices among the study participants.

Background Dating Violence (DV) is a major public health problem among adolescents and Female Adolescents (FA) are particularly at risk of becoming victims. Current study described socio-demographic determinants of DV among female victims. This information would help in formation and evaluation of programs that would promote the health and right of FA. Methods This was cross-sectional in design, conducted in Ido Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. Using two-stage sampling technique, 595 females were recruited from senior classes in private and government-owned secondary schools. Interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information on socio-demographic characteristics and history of experiencing DV in the three month period preceding the study. Three domains of DV (physical assault, sexual coercion and injury) were assessed using a modified Conflict Tactics Scales 2. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test (level of significance = 5%) were conducted. Results Mean age of respondents was 15.7 ± 1.6 years. About half (45.9%) had ever dated and 45.2% were currently dating. Among those who had dated, 54.9% experienced at least one incident of DV. Forms of DV experienced were physical assault (46.5%), sexual coercion (27.1%) and injury (8.8%). Younger ( Conclusions The important role age, family type, school type and dating status played in DV victimisation poses the need for programmers to pay robust attention to FA in these categories when designing programs to address this problem.