FUW TRENDS IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

(A Peer Review Journal)
e–ISSN: 2408–5162; p–ISSN: 2048–5170

FUW TRENDS IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

PERCEIVE HEALTH PRACTICES ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF TAI SOLARIN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, IJAGUN, OGUN STATE
Pages: 968-972
Ojo, Oyinkansola Mariam* and Adagbor Pedro Uwadum


keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, healthful living, health practices

Abstract

This study focused on perceive health practices on COVID-19 pandemic for healthful living among undergraduate students. Descriptive survey research was adopted. Twenty-six thousand, eight hundred and twenty-nine (26,829) was the total population out of which 1,800 was selected as respondents. Simple random sampling technique was adopted for the study. Self-structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by experts in the field of Health Education and test- retest reliability was used and 0.89 established. Chi-square was used to analyze the data at 0.05 level of significant. Findings revealed that distancing from others, hand sanitisation and use of face masks are positive health practices on COVID-19 pandemic for healthful living among students of Tai Solarin University of education. It was recommended that continuous use of all variables tested would act as avenue to reduce the spread of COVID-19 pandemic among University students.

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