PATIENTS ADHERENCE TO HEALTH EDUCATION PRACTICE TOWARDS HEALTHY LIVING IN THREE SELECTED TERTIARY HEALTH FACILITIES IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA

The study assessed patients’ response to health education/information in the promotion of
their health. The purpose was to determine the level of patient adherence to health
education/information, drugs/medication and keeping booked appointment dates. Three
research questions and three hypotheses propelled the study. Descriptive and cross
sectional designs were used for the study. Three hundred and ninety – two respondents
took part in the study. A Likert like rating scale questionnaire was used to gather data.
The questionnaire was validated and the reliability was assessed using Cronbach alpha
which stood at r = 0.92 and both descriptive and inferential statistics of regression
statistics was used to analyse the data at 0.05 alpha. It was found that, all three hypotheses
were significant with ANOVA value of F= 52.081, af 3/388 and significant at .001,
P<0.05. Adherence to health education has t-value of 3.747 and significant at .001, while
adherence to drugs/medication had at value of 2.960 and significant at .003 and keeping
booked appointment had t-value of 4.857 and significant at .001. It shows patients
adherence to heath education but a lot still need to be done. It was recommended that
health education to patients in health facilities was satisfactory and should be sustained.
Adherence to drugs/medication and booked appointed dates was also satisfactory and
should be sustained and improved upon in health facilities.