Hypertension screening practice and its predictors among employees of commercial bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using the health belief model.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr.Berhane, Adugnaw(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ketema, Bezawit(MPH,PHD Fellow) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tilahun, Bosona | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-21T08:18:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T14:40:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-21T08:18:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T14:40:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/25166 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hypertension,screening practice | en_US |
| dc.title | Hypertension screening practice and its predictors among employees of commercial bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using the health belief model. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |