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    Health Information Use for Decision Making among Health Personnel in Elgeyo Marakwet County, Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-05) Bayas, Leonidah Chepchirchir
    Using health information is an essential component in the health industry thus it is factored in as one of the major building block. Health personnel can be able to monitor and evaluate their programs effectiveness using information from the health facilities. Information will guide health professions to identify a problem and it will give varied interventions to solve the problem using information not intuition. Health personnel carry out routine information collection, collation and reporting on all health activities. Studies indicate that local health management at Sub County levels or health facility and the persons collecting the information use very little of this vast amount of information. Ideally, to support local and national use by health management, collection, analysis and use of local information should be done. The study design was cross sectional descriptive study design, simple random sampling was used as this avoided bias. Self-administered questionnaire, key informant interview guide and focus group discussion guide were tools used to collect data. A total of 142 health workers participated in the study. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test to determine significant association was done and results presented in tables, graphs and charts. The results showed 85% use of health information for decision making. The study established that the health information level in usage in decision making among health personnel in Elgeyo Marakwet County was high. The level of motivation among the health personnel to use health information for making of decisions was also high. The study also established that cadre, age, professional training and years of working experience of the health personnel had significant relationship with health information use for decision making. Additionally, the findings indicated that health personnel training on information management, quality of information, and ease of accessing information had significant relationship with health information use for decision making (P<0.05). Lastly, the study found that display of information on key performance indicators, and support from management on matters pertaining to information management had significant relationship with health information utilization in decision making. Therefore, the study recommends that institutions’ management should ensure frequent display of information on key performance indicators in order to enhance health information use among the health personnel. The in-charges, county and sub-county health management teams should facilitate effective supportive supervision on information and information management at the health facilities in order to enhance health information use among the health personnel and policy makers at the National and County level.