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标题：An assessment of health practises among small-scale farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria
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作者：Jones A. Akangbe ; Abidemi O. Asiyanbi ; Ayanda F. Ibraheem 等
期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2015
卷号：22
期号：3
页码：488-490
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1167720
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Objective. The study examines the personal health practices of small scale farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria.Materials and Methods. Primary data were obtained using a well-structured questionnaire which was distributed to 120small scale farmers. Descriptive statistical techniques such as frequency count, percentages were used, as well as PearsonProduct Moment correlation and analysis for empirical analysis.Results. Results revealed that more than half (55%) smoke cigarettes, about 48% drink alcohol to a very great extent, whilethe majority (64.5%) indicated they have not been screened to know their HIV status. On a positive note, the results furthershow that the majority 70%, 53.3%, 80% and 73.3% indicated that they eat a balance diet, engage in physical activity, practicesafer sex, and regularly visit a health care centre, respectively. It also revealed that 77% have not attended any training onhealthy living. The results of PPMC showed that the health knowledge of respondents had significant (p<0.01) influenceon practices like cigarette smoking, eating a balance diet and regular visits to a health care centre.Conclusion. It was concluded that health threatening practices such as cigarette smoking and drinking alcohol among themajority of the respondents, coupled with their lack of health knowledge from health professionals, contributes to the poorhealth status of respondents which eventually negatively influences the labour efficiency of farmers. It is recommendedthat farmers should endeavour to make use of health literacy programmes introduced to them at local government level,and that the government should provide more of these health literacy programmes
关键词：health practices; small scale farmers