Gemeinschaftsmedizin und Gesundheitserziehung

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Assessing the Need for School Clinic during an Outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Abiodun Samuel O, Omolade Oluwaseun O, Busuyi Francis O

School clinic provides the strongest pillar for academic activities and it strengthen health care system of the nation. School clinic is a health care facility located within the school premises intended to provide basic health care services for students and refer them to the specialist or primary health center if it is necessarily important, this study was to assessing the need for school clinic during an outbreak of covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

The target populations of the study were primary and secondary school students in Nigeria. A descriptive of non-experimental survey approach was used to select hundred (100) respondents using convenience non-probability sampling technique. Assessing the Impacts of the School Clinic on Academic Performance on Selected Secondary Schools (AISCAPS) questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Frequency tables and percentage scores were used to describe the data findings while the research questions were analyzed. The findings showed that treatment that the students received in school clinic promote their academic performance (71%), drugs stocked in the school clinic cupboard are used for immediate treatment of emergency situation (66%), and drugs were available for sick students for effective teaching and learning process (66%), 30% of respondents claimed that present of school clinic reduced their absenteeism, The result also showed that students gained access to a good source of health information (59%), Students concords that health needs influence their academic performance (57%), and the students who stayed in good physical health (59%). The study equally showed that the students utilized the school clinic for an illness (78%), students received adequate health information from the school clinic (75%), the students that paid for the school clinic services as part of tuition fees were (70%) and 69% school clinic refers students to nearby Hospital when necessary. The study recommended that each school should have school clinic and psychological care should part of services deliver by health care personnel in the clinic. Government should ensure establishment of school clinic in all government school both in rural and urban area and government should ensure regulation standard of school clinic.