Hypertension screening practice and its predictors among employees of commercial bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using the health belief model.
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2020-12
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Addis Abeba University
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Background:Hypertension is a chronic medical state and important public health problem
worldwide.In Africa more than one-third of adults are hypertensive.Therefore, assessing practice
and perception towards hypertension screening is important for the disease primary prevention
and reducing long lasting health complication. Decreased physical activitiesare important
contributors of hypertension, which commonly seen amongst employees of the profession where
working is mostly sedentary like bank employees. That is why the present cross-sectional study
will be carried out.
Objectives:The purpose of this study is to assess hypertension screening practice and its
predictors among employees of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using
the health belief model.
Methods:An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among 620employees of
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa and self administered questionnaire were
administered to collect data.Independent sample t-test was used to determine whether mean
differences existed between perceptions of employees who had ever screened and never screened
for hypertension. Crude odds ratios were considered to measure associations for each variable
with the hypertension screening practice and multivariable logistic regression was run to identify
predictors of hypertension screening practice.
Result:In this study hypertension screening practice among employees of Commercial Bank of
Ethiopia was 29.19%.There was a mean score difference between the ever and never screened
employees, which those who screened had higher perceived
susceptibility,perceivedseverity,perceivedbenefit,perceivedthreat,self-efficacy,Net-benefit and
cues to action at P<0.05.Perceived self-efficacy and Net-benefit were the predictors of
hypertension screening practice with (P<0.001,AOR 1.106,95% CI 1.051,1.163) and
(P<0.001,AOR 1.082,95% CI,1.041,1.125) respectively.
Conclusion and recommendation:This study high lights employees’ perceptions towards
hypertension screening influenced the uptake of HTN screening uptake.Therefore,educational
interventions given to increase employees perception towards self-efficacy and Netbenefitimprovethehypertensionscreeningpractice.
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Hypertension,screening practice