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Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis

The study examines senior high school students' understanding and attitudes toward information on their health in the Kumasi Metropolis. Multiple sampling techniques (convenient and simple random sampling techniques) were used in the study. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 391 resp...

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Autores principales: Boateng, Simon, Baah, Akosua, Boakye-Ansah, Doris, Aboagye, Bosco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8792603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35096732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.752195
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author Boateng, Simon
Baah, Akosua
Boakye-Ansah, Doris
Aboagye, Bosco
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Boakye-Ansah, Doris
Aboagye, Bosco
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description The study examines senior high school students' understanding and attitudes toward information on their health in the Kumasi Metropolis. Multiple sampling techniques (convenient and simple random sampling techniques) were used in the study. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 391 respondents for the study. Frequencies and percentages were used to analyze the sociodemographic data. Again, the study used Pearson's correlation coefficient to show the degree of relationship between the level of knowledge of health information and attitudes toward seeking and sharing health information. The study found students' knowledge of the causes and symptoms of malaria, cholera, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) to be appreciably high as a result of readings from textbooks and health professionals. Again, the study found that the students preferred sharing their health information with friends than their parents and schools' authorities. The study further found that the major sources of students' health information included health professionals and textbooks. Lastly, even though some of the students claimed internet sources to their health information, it was not a major source to the student body at large. The study recommends strong health systems on the campuses of senior high schools as they have become communities on their own as a result of the emergence of the free senior high school program. The monitored positive peer-counseling group should also be encouraged by the schools' management and by extension the counseling units for the students to share views on themselves, particularly on health issues where they deem fit.
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spelling pubmed-87926032022-01-28 Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis Boateng, Simon Baah, Akosua Boakye-Ansah, Doris Aboagye, Bosco Front Public Health Public Health The study examines senior high school students' understanding and attitudes toward information on their health in the Kumasi Metropolis. Multiple sampling techniques (convenient and simple random sampling techniques) were used in the study. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 391 respondents for the study. Frequencies and percentages were used to analyze the sociodemographic data. Again, the study used Pearson's correlation coefficient to show the degree of relationship between the level of knowledge of health information and attitudes toward seeking and sharing health information. The study found students' knowledge of the causes and symptoms of malaria, cholera, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) to be appreciably high as a result of readings from textbooks and health professionals. Again, the study found that the students preferred sharing their health information with friends than their parents and schools' authorities. The study further found that the major sources of students' health information included health professionals and textbooks. Lastly, even though some of the students claimed internet sources to their health information, it was not a major source to the student body at large. The study recommends strong health systems on the campuses of senior high schools as they have become communities on their own as a result of the emergence of the free senior high school program. The monitored positive peer-counseling group should also be encouraged by the schools' management and by extension the counseling units for the students to share views on themselves, particularly on health issues where they deem fit. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8792603/ /pubmed/35096732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.752195 Text en Copyright © 2022 Boateng, Baah, Boakye-Ansah and Aboagye. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Boakye-Ansah, Doris
Aboagye, Bosco
Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis
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title_full Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis
title_fullStr Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis
title_full_unstemmed Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis
title_short Senior High School Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Information on Their Health in the Kumasi Metropolis
title_sort senior high school students' knowledge and attitudes toward information on their health in the kumasi metropolis
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8792603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35096732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.752195
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