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Volume 3 Journal of Nursing Research and Practice Nursing and Heart 2019
April 22-23, 2019
Nursing Education and Evidence Based Practice Conference
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Assessing the knowledge and practice of school health program among primary school teachers in selected
primary schools in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
Thompson A Anthony
SDA School of Nursing, Nigeria
Statement of the Problem: Promotion of healthy living among primary school pupils help to eradicate diseases and other related
illness in the grassroots. This is made possible by the knowledge of the teachers in inculcating health awareness among these pupils.
With recent increase in the school enrolment, health promotion and maintenance with school-based program is a cost effective
way to improve the health of the school community and the society at large if the aim and objective of primary health care must be
realized. The purpose of this study is to access the level of knowledge and practice of school health program among primary school
teachers in selected primary schools in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: A descriptive design methods was adopted for this study, to select 130 primary school
teachers across 20 primary schools using a convenient Sampling technique, while Florence Nightangale’s environment theory was
used to analyze how the environment can affect the pupils, staff and society at large toward disease prevention and control.
Results: The study found significant difference (P>0.05) between level of education and knowledge of school teachers towards school
Health service and also, significant difference (P>0.05) between years of experience and practice of the school teachers towards
school health service.
In Conclusion: Level of education and years of experience of teachers are contributory factors that affect the awareness of health
services in primary schools. Therefore, school health services must be made compulsory as a subject in the primary schools to
improve the healthy living of the society.
Biography
Thompson A. Anthony is currently a student at SDA School of Nursing, Nigeria. He is an enthusiastic learner who have major interest in Patient Care, Primary
Health Care and Nursing Education.
Thompson A Anthony, J Nursing Research and Practice, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2632-251X-C3-008