Attitude and Practice of Routine Medical Check-up Among Health Workers in Ekiti –State

Abstract

The study investigated the attitude and practice of routine medical check-up among health workers in Ekiti State. A descriptive research design of the survey type was used for this study. The population of this study consisted of 5,058 health workers in Ekiti State health institutions. A total of 426 respondents were randomly selected in three different health institutions, using multistage sampling technique, one from each senatorial district in Ekiti State. The data were collected using a self-developed structured questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to face and content validity procedures and test-retest reliability was carried out and a co-efficient of 0.90 was obtained. All hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that health workers attitude and practice toward routine medical checkup were poor and fair respectively. Also, attitude has a significant relationship with practice in that attitude affects the level of practice of routine medical check-up.