Occupational Health Problems of Secondary School Teachers in Anambra State Nigeria

Abstract

Occupational health problems when not identified and on time might lead to other serious health problems for a teacher. The purpose of this study was to identify the occupational health problems of secondary school teacher in Anambra State. Three specific purposes, three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study; the area of the study was Anambra State; the population of the study comprised of 8,316 secondary school teachers also the sample size for the study was 382 secondary school teachers in Anambra State. The instrument for data collection was a researcher developed instrument titled; Occupational Health Problems of Teachers Questionnaire (OHPTQ). The Instrument was validated by three experts; the coefficient of reliability was gotten using Kudder-Richardson (kr-20) and the value gotten was 0.67. Descriptive statistics of frequency and percentage was used to answer the research questions while chi-square was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the finding showed that headache and stress were the major occupational health problem among teachers in Anambra State. Female teachers have more occupational health problem more than the male teachers. Based on the findings the following recommendations were made; occupational health education should be taught to secondary school teachers in Anambra State.