Health Seeking Behaviour among Undergraduates in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus

Autor/inn/en	Ajaegbu, Okechukwu Odinaka; Ubochi, Ijendu Ihuarulam
Titel	Health Seeking Behaviour among Undergraduates in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus
Quelle	In: International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 5 (2016) 3, S.181-188 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2252-8822
Schlagwörter	Health; Undergraduate Students; College Faculty; Surveys; Questionnaires; Diseases; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Drug Therapy; Patients; Purchasing; Hospitals; Pain; Help Seeking; Access to Health Care; Health Promotion; Prevention; Student Attitudes; Sociocultural Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheit; Fakultät; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fragebogen; Disease; Krankheit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Patient; Beschaffungswesen; Kauf; Krankengymnast; Krankenhaus; Schmerz; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Schülerverhalten; Soziokulturelle Theorie
Abstract	Health is essential for social and economic development of any country. Nearly 10 million children in developing countries die each year before reaching the age of five from ailments, mostly pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria. The socio-cultural belief about the causation of disease and its curability has direct correlation with the treatment seeking behaviour of an individual. It is in the light of the foregoing that this research was necessitated to investigate various health seeking behaviours exhibited by undergraduates in the Faculty of Health Science and Technology. Health Belief Model was used to examine ways people react to health issues. A descriptive survey research design was employed while a questionnaire was the data collection tool for the study. The study revealed that common illnesses among students are headache and fever. Students generally go to buy drugs from the patent medicine stores when sick. Students will not go to the hospital until they experience pains that they cannot accommodate again. Factors affecting the choice of health care adopted when ill is mostly related to its accessibility, effectiveness and none delay. Finally, while government should be able to provide access to many health care facilities, health promotion and preventive strategies should be reinforced in universities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01