Abstract

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The study was conducted to assessed the practice of malaria prevention among Junior Secondary School Students in Kaduna State, Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, ex-post facto research design was used. A total sample of 450 of junior secondary school students in Kaduna State from the population of 158,274 was selected through multi-stage sampling procedures of simple random sampling, proportionate and systematic sampling techniques. The instrument used for the study was the researcher's structured questionnaire. Out of the 450 copies of the questionnaire distributed, 441 were valid for analyses. Inferential statistics of one sample t-test was used to test the formulated hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that the practice of malaria prevention among Junior Secondary School Students in Kaduna State is not significant (p = 0.7). Based on the results it was concl that, the practice of malaria prevention among Junior Secondary School Students in Kaduna State is not good. It was therefore recommended that non-governmental organisations in collaboration with the ministry of health should conduct student workshop or symposiums in schools so as to help in encouraging and correcting poor practices of malaria prevention into good and healthful ones among junior secondary school students in the state.

Keywords: Practice, Malaria, Prevention, Students.