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

Abstract

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.

Health data sharing attitudes towards primary and secondary use of data: a systematic review

“…Of them, 67 articles were excluded due to following reasons: 32 reported no outcomes of interest, 18 reported only qualitative data, 6 were deemed to be of unsuitable publication type, 5 had no full-text available, 3 focused on views of populations not of interest, and 3 were published in a language other than English. Initially, 15 articles seemed to meet the inclusion criteria, however, after tabulating their information they were excluded as well: 10 reported HD sharing with recipients that were not of interest, 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 4 reported wrong HD type or biospecimen only, 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 and 1 was retracted. 40 This left 116 articles to be included in our qualitative summary, yielding a total of 228,501 participants ( Fig.…”