Adoption of personalised healthcare among commercial bus drivers in Alimosho Local Government Area, Lagos State

Personalised healthcare is a preventive approach that uses a patient’s individual characteristics in diseases prevention, diagnosis and treatment. This study assessed the adoption of personalised healthcare among commercial bus drivers in Lagos State, Nigeria. This researchers adopts the descriptive survey research design. Two research questions and hypotheses were postulated to guide the study while the population comprised of all commercial bus drivers in Lagos State from which a sample of 300 commercial bus drivers was selected using multistage sampling techniques (convenience and purposive).Convenience and purposive sampling techniques were used for the number of bus drivers available at time of the study. Data were collected using a self-developed structured instrument titled “Personalised Healthcare Questionnaire (PHQ),” The reliability of the instrument was established using a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.78 was obtained. The questionnaire was administered adopting the on-spot technique. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics (frequency counts and percentages) for the demographics and inferential statistics of one sample t-test and regression analysis were used to test all the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there was significant adoption of wearable health monitoring devices among commercial bus drivers in Alimosho Local Government Area, Lagos State Nigeria (t = 13.48, p< 0.05), the findings indicated a significant relationship between socio-economic factors and the adoption of wearable health monitoring devices (R2=0.52, p<0.05). Part of the recommendations included the need for health education campaigns to be conducted within motor parks to enpower bus drivers on the benefits, usage, and maintenance of wearable health technologies.