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| Students' Sick-Role Behavior and Course Completion in Public and Private Universities in Uganda.
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Asingwire Richard - PhD Cand., Prof. Ijeoma Anumaka Blessing, Assoc. Busingye Janice, Dr. Tweheyo James.
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Abstract:
Abstract: The study was on Students’ sick-role behavior and course completion in public and private universities in Uganda. It was conducted in 6 public and private universities in Uganda while balancing 3 regions: Central, Western and Eastern. The study used both Quantitative and Qualitative in nature and used a Positivism philosophy backed with Health Belief Model (HBM) by Rosen stock, supported by the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) which was proposed in 1975 by Martin Fishbein. Students perform sick-role behavior having reasoned about the positive and negative consequences. Health Belief Model terms like Susceptibility, Perceived benefits, Perceived barriers, Self-efficacy and Clue to barriers were borrowed from Sleep and Diet were used as constructs of sick-role behavior. Unit of analysis was university students. The study used a sample size of 372 participants (students). 306 respondents and 18 informants. 62 students and 3 informants from each university participated in the study. The study found out that: There is a relationship between students’ health behavior and course completion. Sleep and Diet do not affect the course completion because significant coefficient (0.01) is less than 0.05 - thus, not significant. The null hypothesis “There is no relationship between students’ sick-role behavior and course completion” is accepted. Students have already achieved their dreams by being at campus. Living a university life – being free from the outside of elders, is living a heavenly world. Enjoying life, as they term it. Students care less about studies. After S.6 (Advanced Level) stress, they relax from reading a lot and spend most of their campus life sleeping. Some negligently miss lectures or even exams. At the end of the semester of the year, the majority of students get retakes. By the time of the course, almost a half of the intended students fail to complete their courses. The study recommended students to always feed on balanced to improve their health. Physical activities should be availed to students to make their bodies active other than sleeping most of their time.
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