QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE SERVICE’S AND PROVIDER’S DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH CARE-SEEKING BEHAVIORS AMONG WOMEN IN KHANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

Kuebari M. Nwiko, Emmanuel U. Asogwa

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The study examined the quality of health care services and provider’s determinants of health care seeking behavior among women in Khana local government area of Rivers State. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional survey design. Three research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The sample size for the study was 1,200 women selected using multi-stage sampling procedures. A validated self-structured instrument, titled, “Determinants of Health Care Seeking Behavior Questionnaire”, with a reliability index value of 0.64 was used for data collection. Means and Standard Deviations were used to answer the research questions whole Analysis of Variance was used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study showed that the respondents had good health care-seeking behaviors in terms of action on perceived signs and symptoms of disease (= 2.67 + 0.89), test-seeking behavior (= 2.93 + 0.94), choice of health care service’s factors (= 3.36 + 0.76), treatment-seeking behaviors (= 2.86 + 0.95), and treatment-adherent behavior (= 2.87+ 0.85). The results also showed that quality of health care service (= 2.90 + 0.97) were significant determinants, while health care provider’s factors (= 2.43 + 1.05) were not determinants of health care seeking-behavior of the respondents. The study recommended among others that health care services should be health care consumers-centered to sustain and improve on the health care-seeking behavior and proper re-orientation of health care providers should be carried out at every level of health care in order to create friendly relationship between health care providers and consumers or patients.

 

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