College of education students' attitude towards the use of online information dissemination tools for counseling in Ghana.
Attitude
Mental health
Online counseling
Perception
Students
Technology
Journal
Heliyon
ISSN: 2405-8440
Titre abrégé: Heliyon
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101672560
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
06
12
2022
revised:
07
07
2023
accepted:
31
07
2023
medline:
14
8
2023
pubmed:
14
8
2023
entrez:
14
8
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Online counseling is widely regarded as a cost-effective and convenient means to provide basic counseling services, and it is increasingly being used in university treatment. However, it is unclear what amount of information and attitude students have about online counseling in colleges of education. This study looked at students' views toward and likelihood of using online counseling towards help information seeking and dissemination to see if it has the potential to increase overall service consumption. A survey was conducted and responded to by 411 students from two Ghanaian colleges of education and based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour, students' attitudes and intentions to use online counseling were investigated. The paucity of online counseling systems in the colleges of education is shown in the study, yet 94% of participants said they would use online counseling services if given the opportunity. Based on these findings, it is recommended that providing online counseling in parallel to face-to-face counseling could be an effective strategy for counseling units in colleges of education to boost service delivery and so better serve their students.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37576312
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18833
pii: S2405-8440(23)06041-3
pmc: PMC10415885
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e18833Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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