COLLEGE CONVERSION INTO COVID-19 QUARANTINE CENTER: READINESS OF PARENTS ON STUDENTS RESUMPTION TO COLLEGE

Rhoda Nchogu (), Dorcas Ngechu (), Caroline Mramba (), Jane Kima () and Dominic Mutonga ()

Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2020, vol. 5, issue 5, 44 - 50

Abstract: Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess parents' readiness to allow students resume college after closure due to COVID-19. Methodology: The study was descriptive cross-sectional design done at KMTC-Mombasa Campus. Participants (parents) were selected using multistage convenient random sampling method, where an assumption of each student having at least one parent was made. The total population of students is 850, 10% of the student population was found to be a representative number for parents. (0.1x850), n=85 with a confidence level of 95%. Response rate was 85.8% (n=73). Data was obtained using interviewer administered questionnaires. Data analysis was done using SPSS and results presented using tables and narrations. Results: 78% (57) parents were willing to allow students resume college immediately while 22 % of parents were reluctant to allow students go back to college. 78% (57) parents were aware of the college being used as a quarantine center whereas 22% (16) were unaware. 92% (67) guardians perceived the college as safe despite its use as a quarantine center, while 8% of the guardians termed the college unsafe. 8% (6) parents who perceived the college as unsafe were being reluctant to allow their children back to college. Perception of safety significantly affected the readiness to allow students back to college with a chi-square value of (p=0.001). Unique contribution to theory, practice, and policy This study investigated readiness of as parents as key stakeholders to allow students to resume college after it had been utilized as a quarantine centre during the COVID 19 pandemic. Readiness of parents to allow students resume studies in an institution used as a quarantine centre for clients suspected of having a highly infectious disease has not been examined in literature before especially in institutions of higher learning. The findings of this study are useful to policy makers and leaders in education sector as normalcy resumes and learning institutions are opened.

Keywords: COVID-19; Kenya Medical Training College; Readiness; Mombasa; Quarantine Center; parents; student resume. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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