Awareness, Knowledge, Embracement and Utilisation of Tertiary Institution Social Health Insurance Programme (TISHIP) among Undergraduate Students at Fuoye, Nigeria

The empirical study focused on the awareness, knowledge,
embracement and utilization of Tertiary Institution Social
Health Insurance Programme (TISHIP) among undergraduate
students at FUOYE, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the
study are:
Methods: This study was carried out in four major campuses
at Federal University Oye-Ekiti which include Oye, Ikole,
Ilupeju and Itapa in Ekiti state Nigeria. A total of 537
undergraduate students were purposively sampled for the
study. A mixed method was implored (semi-structured
questionnaire and IDI) to collect both quantitative and
qualitative data respectively. The quantitative data was
analysed using IBM SPSS version 20 while the qualitative
data was analysed using content analysis and verbatim.
Results: On the demographic characteristics of the
respondents, findings showed that 50.8% were within the
age range of 20-24 years, 67.0% were female while only
33.0% were male, 79.3% were Christians, 89.9% were single,
31.3% were in faculty of social sciences and 53.1% were in
300 level. More so, 55.9% have heard or are aware of TISHIP
scheme in FUOYE, 55.9% used school clinic to access health
care, 63.1% have ever benefited health care service from
the school health center/sick bay, 69.3% they prefer to
use the school health facility because it is capable to treat
them well of any kind of illness, disease or sickness
59.2%supported this, 20.2% got to know about TISHIP
during new students orientation programme and 74.9%
define TISHIP as Tertiary Institution Social Health Insurance
Programme.
Conclusion: The study concluded that management of
FUOYE should as a matter of urgency endeavor to explore all
avenues to create very strong awareness about the
availability of TISHIP, its embracement and utilization among
the students in order to improve healthy living environment
conducive for learning.

Author(s): Kolawole Taiwo Olabode1* and Owoeye Timilehin Peter2

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