EVALUATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF BORNO STATE
EVALUATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF BORNO STATE
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2006
Authors
DIKA, USMAN GARBA
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Abstract
Health is a basic need of life; therefore health education is necessary
if people are to enjoy a worthwhile life style. Since students are the
immediate beneficiaries of school health education activities and need to
live a productive life in school and after school years, there is need to
evaluate health education outcomes to ascertain whether school health
education programme achieved its set objectives. The study evaluated
health education outcomes in secondary schools of Borno State. To
achieve this purpose a total of 1400 subjects were randomly selected from
urban and rural secondary schools of Biu and Monguno zone of Borno
State. A self developed and validated questionnaire was used to collect the
required data. The questionnaire contained 20 statements on health
knowledge, 20 on health attitude, and 20 on health practice. Descriptive
statistical technique was used in this study. The major findings of this study
showed that:
(1) Health knowledge of secondary school students of Borno State was
positive while their health attitude and practice were not positive.
(2) Male students had better health knowledge than their female
counterparts signifying the effects of gender on health knowledge.
However, their health attitude and practice were not significantly
affected by gender.
(3) Students from urban secondary schools had better health knowledge
than those from rural secondary schools.
It was inferred from the findings of the study that health knowledge
improves health attitude and practice in formal health education program.
Adequate health facilities and conducive teaching and learning
environment promote health education outcome in secondary schools.
However, the acquired health knowledge according to the study was not
applied to develop health attitude and practice of the students. It was
therefore necessary to make health education functional and compulsory at
all levels of schools. Emphasis of health education should not therefore be
on examination results or grades but rather on improvement and promotion
of health and wellbeing of the students. There is the urgent need to
improve school health services in order to create an enabling environment
for good health practice and appraisal of health habits and skills. There is
also need to improve teaching and learning facilities, most especially in
rural areas where such facilities are grossly inadequate. The socio-cultural
inhibitions and restriction generally found among girls that make access to
information limited be identified and removed to make teaching and
learning gender free.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE
SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL
FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF
EDUCATION (M.ED) IN HEALTH EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL AND HEALTH
EDUCATION, FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA - NIGERIA
Keywords
EVALUATION,, HEALTH EDUCATION,, OUTCOMES,, SENIOR,, SECONDARY SCHOOLS,, BORNO STATE.