Factors Affecting Academic Performance of Health Science Students in case of Harar Health Science College, Eastern Ethiopia

Zelalem Bekele; Abdusamed Mohammed; Yasssen Abdulahi

Abstract

Background: The concept of quality education is still contentious, it is clear from a lot of research thatgood quality education facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that have intrinsicvalue and also helps address important human goal. Objectives: To Assess Factors Affecting AcademicPerformance of Health Science Students in case of Harar Health Science College. Method: A crosssectionalstudy design was employed to assess factors affecting academic performance health Sciencestudent’s enrolled in full-time undergraduate programms total of 332 participants were recruited forthe study. Sample students were selected by creating strata among the study programs and then thesample were distributed to each departments using Proportional allocation. Data was checked forcompleteness and consistency then entered to Epi-Data version 3.1 and exported and analyzed usingSPSS version 21. Descriptive analysis frequencies, mean Standard deviation were used. Independentsample T-test were used to determine the relationship between identified factors and students profileon academic performance. Result: In the present study a total of 332 study participants were involved,the mean age was 22.7 years with SD + 2.03. Teacher related factors had the major influential factorsaffects academic performance of student, with the highest grand mean value of 3.57, followed by studentrelated factors and home related factors with grand mean of 3.51 and 3.27. The study found gender wasa significant difference on the level of identify factors, with female scoring highest and male scoringlowest. (F value 4.36, p-value 0.037). Different year of level were significant difference on the degreeof factors affect academic performance, third years scoring highest mean and the second years scoringlowest with (F value of 7.99, p-value 0.000).