Abdullateef Gbenga SULE MEd Health Education (ABU, 2021)2023-09-212023-09-212021-06-17https://teras.ng/api/asset/document/a7275034-4767-46dc-ba78-3ae803ccee07https://teras.ng/catalog-item/f21cfd43-ce2c-44e8-98a0-99874f763ad6http://dspace.teras-network.net:4000/handle/123456789/7073The Tertiary Institutions Social Health Insurance Programme (TISHIP) is a healthcare delivery scheme that is targeted for students of tertiary institutions such as universities, polytechnics and colleges of education to ensure that every student in tertiary institution have access to quality healthcare. The awareness, utilization and satisfaction among students are very crucial to realization of objectives of the programme. It was against this backdrop that this study assessed the levels of awareness, utilization and satisfaction with Tertiary Institutions Social Health Insurance Programme (TISHIP) among students of tertiary institutions in Kaduna State. The study was carried out using descriptive study design to assessed 400 students in a proportionately sampled from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Federal College of Education Zaria and Kaduna Polytecnic, Kaduna. Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire short form (PSQ-Short form) was used to assess satisfaction among the students while questionnaires on awareness and utilization were adapted from the National blueprint for TISHIP. One sample t test, ANOVA and paired t test were used to analysed the hypotheses with level of significant set at (P-value 0.05). The data analysis revealed that awareness is about forty seven percent (47.2%) with (m=2.36; SD=0.92), Utilization was about forty two percent (42.5%) with (m=2.26; SD=1.08) and satisfaction fifty seven percent (57%) with (m=2.85; SD=1.14). Awareness was significantly different from utilization (t=12.456; p=0.000) and Utilization was also significantly different from satisfaction (7.395; p=0.000). However, the levelsof awareness, utilization and satisfaction were not significantly different among students of the various tertiary institutions. The levels of awareness, utilization and satisfaction were similar in all the tertiary institutions but were generally low and have no practical significance.Research Theses