Perceived Environmental Factors as Correlate of Availability and Utilization of Schools Health Services in Primary Schools in Central Senatorial District of Delta State

Abstract

Learning can only take place meanifully in a conduceive environment, hence school health services should operate in an environment of good space and asethic to achieve it’s goals. The purpose of this study was to assess environment as a correlates of the availability and utilization of school health services in central senatorial District of Delta State. Adopting the descriptives research design, 456 pupils and teachers were sampled for the study. Two research questions and two hypotheses were generated as a guide. A self-developed questionnaire with a crombach alpha of r = 0.84 was used to generate the data. The descriptive and spearman’s correlation coefficient was used to analyse the data. It was revealed in the findings that schools health services were inadequate in Central Senatorial District of Delta State, Nigeria, but space was not a significant correlates of school health services. Instead, funds and equipment were hindrance to adequate school health services. It was recommended that effort at improving school health services  should be geared towards funds and equipment while other environmental factors should be maintained and upheld.

Keywords: Environmental factors, School Health Progamme, Central Senatorial District, Nigeria.