EVALUATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF BORNO STATE

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dc.contributor.authorDIKA, USMAN GARBA
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-06T08:29:39Z
dc.date.available2014-03-06T08:29:39Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.descriptionA 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 - NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractHealth 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://kubanni.abu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/3324
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectEVALUATION,en_US
dc.subjectHEALTH EDUCATION,en_US
dc.subjectOUTCOMES,en_US
dc.subjectSENIOR,en_US
dc.subjectSECONDARY SCHOOLS,en_US
dc.subjectBORNO STATE.en_US
dc.titleEVALUATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF BORNO STATEen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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