Influence of Demographic Variables on the Utilisation of Primary Healthcare Services Among Civil Servants of Kano State Towards Promoting Wellness

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of demographic variables on the utilisation of primary health care services among civil servants in Kano state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design of an expost facto type was used to conduct the study. A self-structured questionnaire named influence of demographic variables on the utilisation of primary health care services (IDVUPHS) with r=0.72 was used as the instrument for data collection. The researcher used 379 copies of the questionnaire to analyse the data. A descriptive statistics of simple frequencies and percentage were used to describe the demographic information of the respondents and a t-test was used to test all the three hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results obtained from the study indicated that: Urban and rural civil servants in Kano state differ in their utilisation of primary health care services based on availability of medical personnel. There is no significant difference between senior and junior civil servants in Kano state in their utilisation of primary health care services based on availability of medical personnel. Male and female civil servants in Kano state did not differ significantly in the utilisation of primary health care services based on availability of health personnel. It was recommended among others that; Kano state government should provide more medical personnel and deployed to the various public health centers in all the forty four local governments of the state. This will bridge the differences existed between the urban and rural communities in terms of health care services given to them