Occupational stress is an increasingly important occupational health problem. This study assessed the effect of health education intervention on coping responses to stress among healthcare workers in Bayelsa State. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design (pretest and post-test control group). The study population consisted of 398 environmental healthcare officers, and a sample size of 210 was selected using a multistage sampling procedure. A self-structured test instrument titled “Stress Management among Environmental Healthcare Workers (SMEHCW)” was used for data collection. Data were collected in three phases: pre-intervention, intervention, and post-intervention. All analyses were conducted using the Statistical Product for Service Solution (SPSS V-27). Each completed test instrument was assigned a unique code. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation, and ANCOVA at the 0.05 alpha level. The results showed that the effect of health education on coping responses was positive with a pretest mean score of 2.07± 1.01 and posttest mean score of 3.44± 1.19. The result showed that the interventions had a significant effect on coping responses to stress [F(1,208) = 15.95, p<0.05]. However, only 7.2% (ω² = 0.072) of the variance in the post-intervention coping responses to stress could be explained by the intervention. The interventions had no significant effect on stress management based on gender [F(1,208) = 0.62, p>0.05]. Also, the interventions had no significant effect on stress management based on marital status [F(1,208) = 0.12, p>0.05]. It was concluded that health education is a valuable tool for improvement of intervention programmes aimed at influencing stress coping responses among healthcare workers. It was recommended, among other things, that the ministry of health should create an environment that fosters peer-support and mentorship as a coping strategy to help identify stressors among junior officers, build resilience and adopt positive coping strategies.

Keywords: Coping Responses, Effect, Health, Stress, Workers.