SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION FOR COVID-19 PROTOCOL ADHERENCE: APPLICATION OF PRECEDE-PROCEED AND HEALTH BELIEF MODELS BY HEALTH RESEARCHERS

Abstract

The use of theories and models have been an herculean task for researchers in health education due to dearth of materials plus absence of the required knowledge on how to apply theories to researches and practice by practitioners. The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic became a global threat requiring the efforts of all professionals to maximally put a stop to the spread of the virus by adhering to all the precautionary measures to limit the contagiousness of the infection. The application of PRECEDEPROCEED
and Health Belief Models (HBM) were explicitly discussed in the paper while comprehensive information is provided on the place of health education and school health programme in limiting the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases through adherence to WHO Protocols. The two models were lucidly discussed and how they can be used in carrying out health
intervention researches. How health education intervention can be applied to modify health behaviour positively were exhaustively narrated and school health education was recommended to be taught by certified health educators in school for health behaviour adjustment among learners at their formative age.