Socio-Cultural Indices and Health Checks Practices among Secondary School Teachers in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District
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Socio-Cultural Indices, Health Checks Practices, Residential Settlement, Income, Years of Working ExperienceAbstract
The main purpose of this study was to examine the socio-cultural indices and health checks practices among secondary school teachers in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. The study was guided by three research questions and three hypotheses. A descriptive research design was used. The target population for the study comprised all 3,244 secondary school teachers in all the public secondary schools in the Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. A sample size of 324 teachers representing 10 percent of the total population was selected for the study using the multistage sampling technique. A researcher-made structured questionnaire entitled “Socio-Cultural Indices and Health Checks Practices Questionnaire (SCIHCPQ)” was used for data collection. The instrument was face validated by five experts of two lecturers from the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education and three from the Department of Psychological Foundations of Education, University of Uyo. The reliability coefficient result of .78 was obtained using Cronbach’s Alpha reliability method. The collated data was analysed using simple linear regression to answer the research questions and to test the hypotheses at the .05 level of significance. The findings revealed that socio-cultural indices such as residential settlement, income and years of working experience significantly influence the health checks practices among secondary school teachers in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. It was recommended, among others, that the government should develop affordable and accessible health screening services, particularly targeting teachers in lower-income brackets and residential settlements with limited healthcare access.
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