• Glory Mmachukwu Nwakpadolu, Moses Onyemaechi Ede, Calister Lebechukwu Nwadi, Kelechi Ruth Ede, Joy Oluchukwu Okoro, Uchechukwu Charles Onyishi, Faith Omeke, and Joy Obiageli Oneli.
• Department of Agric/Vocational Education, College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Aug 23; 103 (34): e39379e39379.

BackgroundRaising potential entrepreneurs to advance the economy of nations through education has been projected by scholars. On the contrary, Nigerian students lack the enthusiasm and internal force to pursue the aims enshrined in their courses of study. Rather they prefer white-cola jobs to the entrepreneurial intention of the institutions. Given this reason, we tested the effect of cognitive behavior-aided counseling on entrepreneurial self-efficacy of students of Home Economics in South-East Nigeria.MethodsThis is a pretest and posttest with a follow-up group randomized control design. A total of 119 Home Economics Education students from Universities and Colleges of Education were measured and screened using an entrepreneurial self-efficacy scale and inclusion criteria. Data collected from the pretest, post-test, and follow-up test were statistically analyzed using repeated measures of Analysis of Variance statistical method. The effect size of the cognitive behavior-aided counseling intervention on entrepreneurial self-efficacy was reported using partial eta square. The follow-up data was tested using a Univariate analysis.ResultsThe result showed that cognitive behavior-aided counseling intervention had a significant effect on entrepreneurial self-efficacy among the Universities and Colleges of Education in South-East Nigeria. A follow-up result also showed that intervention had a significant effect on participants' entrepreneurial self-efficacy.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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