Personal and Socio-demographic Factors of Recreational Sports Participation among Health Care Professionals in Federal Medical Centres in South-Western Nigeria
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2025-12
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Lead City University, Ibadan
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Recreational sports participation (RSP) has been proven to have preventive capability and possible curative effect on different medical conditions. Despite this, there is a paucity of studies on it, specifically among health care professionals (HCPs). This study therefore, examined prediction of personal and socio-demographic factors on RSP among HCPs in Federal Medical Centres (FMCs), South-western Nigeria. Beckarian Approach and
Green’s Model of Sport Development were used as theories in this study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of this study comprise all 1513 health care professionals in federal medical centrals in south-western, Nigeria. Simple random and purposive sampling technique were used to select 723 respondents; while questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential Statistics of multiple regression were used for data analysis. The results revealed that, the level of RSP was low (weighted mean=1.70) among HCPs in FMCs, South-western Nigeria. There were significant joint predictions of personal (F(3,719)=379.292, p<0.05), social (F(3,719)=310.529, p<0.05) and demographic factors (F(2,720)=197.737, p<0.05) on RSP respectively. Personal factors of lifestyle (β=-0.854, p<0.05) and skill level (β=0.169, p<0.05); social factors of occupational demand (β=-0.247, p<0.05), residential location (β=-0.713, p<0.05) and availability of facilities / equipment (β=0.530, p<0.05); and demographic factors of gender role (β=-0.228, p<0.05) and religious affiliation (β= 0.560, p<0.05) had relative predictions
on RSP respectively, while health benefit (β=-0.012, p>0.05) did not. Conclusively, the level of recreational sports participation was low among health care prefessionals in Federal Medical Centres, South-western Nigeria. There were significant joint predictions of personal, social and demographic factors on recreational sports participation respectively. There were significant relative predictions of lifestyle, skill level, occupational demand, residential location, availability of facilities/equipment, gender role and religious affiliation on recreational sports participation, while health benefit did not. The study concluded that there was a significant joint and relative predictions of personal, social and demographic factors on recreational sports participation. The study recommended that the management of Federal Medical Centres in South-western Nigeria should therefore, intensify efforts to organize an effective health education programme on recreational sports participation specifically, for health care professionals.
Keywords: Recreational, Sports participation, Personal and Socio-demographic factors.
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Recreational, Sports participation, Personal and Socio-demographic factors.
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Kate Turabian