Healthcare-seeking behaviour is any action undertaken by individuals who perceive to have a health problem or to be ill to find an appropriate remedy. The study was designed to examine healthcare treatment-seeking behaviour against catarrh infection among students of Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare, Bauchi State. A descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for the study. The population of the study was all the students of Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare with a total of 7,531. The sample was 387 students from both schools of undergraduate and NCE sections of the college. The sample was selected through a multi-stage sampling procedure. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation to answer the research question while inferential statistics of one sample t-test was used to test the postulated hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level. The result of the tested hypothesis revealed that there is a significant practice of science-based healthcare treatment-seeking behaviour against catarrh among students. It was concluded that students practice science-based healthcare treatment-seeking behaviour for the management of catarrh with some limitations regarding laboratory diagnosis and immediate response to infection situations.
Therefore, it was recommended that students should be encouraged to go for a sputum test before treatment of catarrh as this will help in determining the actual problem instead of relying on blind treatment. In addition, students should be sensitised to report to health facilities for immediate diagnosis and treatment of catarrh whenever they had any symptoms of the condition.