ATTITUDETOWARDS WATER SANITATION AMONG SENIOR BOARDING SECONDARY SCHOOLS STUDENT IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This assesses the attitudestoward water sanitation among senior boarding secondary school
students in Kaduna State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling approach that involved a stratified
random sampling technique, simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling
techniques was used for this study. The instrument used for data collection was a structured
questionnaire. Out of three hundred and eighty one (381) copies of questionnaire administered,
three hundred and eighty (380) were valid and used for the analyses. Data collected was analyzed
using one sample t test at 0.05 alpha levels. The results revealed that senior boarding secondary
school students in Kaduna state do not have significant attitudestowardswater sanitation. It was
recommended that the school authorities should monitor the attitudes of senior boarding
secondary school students toward water sanitation whenever they are using water at any point for
any activities and teachers as a matter of fact should sustain and improve the practice of water
sanitation by always reminding the students about the importance of sanitizing water.