RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIFESTYLES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS SUFFERED BY THE PEOPLE OF OFFA LOCAL GOVT OF KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

Student: Ifeoluwa Olawumi Usman
Supervisor: Mrs F J Oladimeji
HOD: Mrs Bamidele Christianah Olawumi
Department of Community Health
HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
Kwara State College of Health Technology, offa, Kwara State

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between lifestyles and health problems suffered by the people of Offa local government of Kwara state, Nigeria. A survey research design was adopted. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 200 respondents for the study and a questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. A mean score rating method was used for analysis of the data based on the 2.5 acceptance region format to answer the research questions, while to address the research hypothesis, the chi-square was used. The results indicate that there is a general positive relationship between the lifestyle and health problem suffered by people of the Offa Local Government area of the Kwara state of Nigeria. Efforts should be made to improve the lifestyle of the people

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