Vulnerability to Cardiovasular Diseases among Senior Civil Servants in Ekiti State, Nigeria: Implications for Health Education
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Abstract
This study examined vulnerability to cardio vascular disease among senior civil servants in Ekiti-State and implications for health education. Ekiti State otherwise called fountain of knowledge is known for academic attainment where majority of the populace are educated but the poor level of economic development made civil service the widely accepted job option for the populace. Civil Service includes secondary schools, ministries and parastatals. The study design used was descriptive survey. Ado Local Government was purposefully selected while Ado-Ekiti the only major town in Ado Local Government Area was used for the study because all the ministries headquarters are located in Ado-Ekiti the state capital. Data for this study were collected from primary sources using a total number of three hundred senior civil servants with salary scale within 14 and 16, who were randomly selected using simple random and stratified sampling technique from the ministries, parastatals and secondary schools. Two hundred and eighty copies of the administered instrument which were duly completed and returned, giving 93 percent returned rate were analyzed. A standardized Arizona Heart Institute cardiovascular Risk factor analysis questionnaire was adopted. The data collected were analyzed using frequency and percentages. The study revealed that 168 (60%) respondents were male while 112 (40%) were female. Using the scoring method provided by the risk factor analysis, it was revealed that men had high risk factors while women had low risk factors. The body mass index calculated also showed that male senior civil servants are overweight than their female counterparts. It was therefore recommended that, conducting enlightenment campaign would create awareness on the risk factors to cardiovascular diseases which would reduce the vulnerability rate. Regular medical checkup in work place would help in early identification of the non-modifiable risk factors and prompt treatment of such condition. Finally, keep fit exercise should be organized regularly for senior civil servants by the state government. Key words: Cardiovascular Diseases; Civil Servants; Vulnerability; Implication and Health Education Resume: Cette etude a examine la vulnerabilite des maladies cardiovasculaires chez les hauts fonctionnaires de l'etat d'Ekiti, et les implications pour l'education sanitaire. L'etat d'Ekiti, autrement appele la fontaine de la connaissance, est connu pour les resultats scolaires ou la majorite de la population sont scolarisee, mais le niveau de developpement economique faible a rendu la fonction publique l'option d'emploi largement acceptee par la population. La fonction publique comprend les ecoles secondaires, les ministeres et les organismes parapublics. Le modele d'etude utilise est l'enquete descriptive. Le gouvernement local d'Ado a ete deliberement choisi alors que Ado-Ekiti, la seule ville importante dans la region du gouvernement local d'Ado a ete choisie comme l'objet d'etude parce que tous les sieges des ministeres sont situes a Ado-Ekiti, la capitale de l'Etat. Les donnees de cette etude ont ete recueillies a partir des sources primaires en utilisant un nombre total de trois cents hauts fonctionnaires avec un bareme de salaire entre 14 et 16, selectionnes de maniere aleatoire en utilisant la technique d'echantillonnage aleatoire simple et stratifie dans les ministeres, organismes parapublics et ecoles secondaires. Deux cent quatre-vingts copies d'enquete ont ete dument remplies et retournees, et 93 pour cent des copies retournees ont ete analysees. Un questionnaire standardise d'analyse des facteurs de risque cardiovasculaire de l'Institut de cardiologie d'Arizona a ete adopte. Les donnees recueillies ont ete analysees en utilisant la frequence et les pourcentages. L'etude a revele que 168 (60%) des repondants etaient de sexe masculin alors que 112 (40%) etaient de sexe feminin. En utilisant la methode de notation fournie par l'analyse des facteurs de risque, on a decouvert que les hommes avaient des facteurs de risque eleve alors que les femmes avaient des facteurs de risque faible. L'indice de masse corporelle a egalement montre que les hauts fonctionnaires masculins ont plus de probleme de surpoids que leurs homologues feminins. La campagne d'illumination pourrait donc creer de la sensibilisation sur les facteurs de risque des maladies cardio-vasculaires qui permettrait de reduire le taux de vulnerabilite. L'examen medical regulier en milieu de travail aiderait a l'identification precoce des facteurs de risque non modifiables et au traitement rapide en cas de risque. Enfin, l'exercice de fitness devrait etre organise regulierement pour les hauts fonctionnaires par le gouvernement de l'etat. Mots-cles: Maladies Cardiovasculaires; Fonctionnaires Civils; Vulnerabilite; Implication Et Education Sanitaire
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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