Identification Of Crisis On Water Supply, Sanitation And Hygiene In Rural Area Of Osun State, Nigeria; Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Perspectives
Omisore Adedotun Olurin
Department of Statistics, Osun State Polythecnic, Iree, Nigeria
Adegbite Ismaila Olawale
Department of Statistics, Osun State Polythecnic, Iree, Nigeria
Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Hygiene, Sanitation, Water
Abstract
The research aims to investigate and identify crisis on water supply, sanitation and hygiene practice in rural areas of Osun state, Nigeria; Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) perspectives. KAP related information on water sources; treatment and storage were studied. The study also obtained relevant information on sanitation as well as hygiene related perceived diseases. The methodologies employed were pre-test structured questionnaire, observation spot check, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Key Information Interview (KII) to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. The research was conducted in all local government areas of Osun state, Nigeria. Household’s head was the potential respondent, in the absence of household’s head any adult in the house was considered as respondent. Relevance of logistic regression, descriptive statistics and sample survey were applied on KAP. It was identified that the knowledge and attitude are significant but practice are not statistically significant enough to prevent associate diseases caused by poor sanitation and hygiene practices among Osun state rural dwellers. It is recommended that the outcome of the study based on KAP, communication channels, campaigns and mobilisation, information, education and communication materials, safe water chain can be used by policy makers and stake holders, as a guide in an effort to sensitise the populace on the need to have a better knowledge, attitude and practice on water supply, sanitation and hygiene, since health is wealth and a healthy nation is a wealthy nation.