Awareness and Attitudes Towards Hepatitis B Virus Among Students and Their Vaccination Status in Lead City University
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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This study assessed the Awareness and attitudes towards hepatitis B virus among students and their vaccination status in Lead City University. This study Specific objectives includes; To assess the awareness of Hepatitis B virus among students in a tertiary institution, To determine the attitude of students towards Hepatitis B vaccination among students of tertiary institution. To determine the status of hepatitis vaccination among students of tertiary institution. The study adopted cross sectional study. A sample size four hundred students were selected from estimated number of students in Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo state. A multistage sampling technique was used for this study, the first stage is where all participants were grouped into clusters according to their faculties and then the second stage, the participant were grouped into smaller clusters according to their departments under these faculties. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square test at 5%. A look at the awareness of hepatitis b virus among students revealed average level of awareness among them, as those that are aware is 49.4%.The attitude of people on Hepatitis B Virus infection was also assessed in the study. Results from the study showed that majority of the people (55%) had good attitude as this percentage had an average score of 3 and the perception was not bad as less than half of them scored within the range of 0-2. Also, majority (56%) of the participant were of the view that hepatitis b vaccination should be made compulsory. The results of the study also showed that most of respondents (78%) believed that healthy people need vaccination against HBV. Almost all of the respondents (69%) indicated that they were willing to be vaccinated against Hepatitis B Virus infection. However, only 15% had ever been vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus infection. Based on the study, the following recommendations were made; Universities should raise awareness about the benefits and safety of HB vaccination, Universities should work with ministry of health to get free kit to conduct the Hepatitis B virus test, Lectures on hepatitis B virus and vaccination should be part of the school orientation program for the new students.
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Kate Turabian