Investigating sedentariness and health status of primary school teachers in Ghana.
Edward Wilson AnsahMawuli AdablaNorgbedzie JerryEric A AlokoJohn Elvis HaganPublished in: BMC health services research (2023)
The findings suggest that individualized or personalized interventions are urgently needed to promote regular physical activity to improve the health status and reduce associated complications on the health and well-being, especially among the female primary school teachers. Given the health risks of sedentary lifestyle, behavioral interventions at the person-level (i.e., individualized- routine weekly physical activity programs) and built environmental restructuring (e.g., creation of walkways to encourage regular walking) could be done to improve physical activity behavior among teachers within the Cape Coast Metropolis, and perhaps beyond.