Workplace Health Promotion in Selected Banks of Mushin Local Government Area, Nigeria

Abstract

Aims: To assess banker’s knowledge, attitude and perception on sedentary lifestyle as a predisposing factor to hypertension together with availability of workplace health promotion towards combating hypertension susceptibly among bankers. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey design. Place and Duration of Study: Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State., between January 2017 and April 2017. Methodology: Study was carried out among 131 staff of 10 different banks in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State. A semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection, in which the knowledge, attitude, perception, practice of sedentary lifestyle and hypertension and also workplace health promotion was measured. Data collected were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 21 with levels of significance set at 0.05. Results: Most of the  respondents had  low level of knowledge (46%) on what constitute sedentary lifestyle and hypertension, where more than half of the respondent had good attitude towards sedentary lifestyle (56%), the respondents’ perceived seriousness of hypertension was good (56.83%),  where the perceived susceptibility to hypertension was found to be low (49.08%) and the study also revealed that the respondents perceived benefits was good with percentage above average (64%), the study revealed that respondents’ practice of physical activity was good (52.53%) but there is room for improvement. Analysis also showed that there was no stipulated workplace health promotion across the selected banks (37.2%). It was gathered that respondents knowledge of sedentary lifestyle was significantly related to their increased sedentary lifstyle (R2 = 0.121; F = 17.697; P < 0.05), Test result showed that there was a significant association between non availability of workplace health promotion and the increased practice of sedentary lifestyle among respondents (F = 6.542, R Square = 0.048; P < 0.05). Conclusion: The study concluded that knowledge of bankers on sedentary lifestyle as a risk factor to hypertension was low indicating that bankers do not have enough knowledge linking sedentary lifestyle to hypertension and non-availability of workplace health promotion contributed to the sedentary lifestyle of bankers. This is indicating that a reduction in sedentary lifestyle among bankers calls for an establishment of workplace health promotion.