Healthy LifeStyle Practice and Its Associated Factors among Public Servants in Fiche Town, Ethiopia

Abstract Background: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is essential to lowering the global burden of non-communicable diseases. Living a healthy lifestyle reduces the likelihood of developing a severe illness or passing away too soon. Public officials frequently lead unhealthy lifestyles because they are time-pressed and face many challenges that could negatively impact their health. However, there is limited evidence on the level of healthy lifestyle practice and factors associated with unhealthy lifestyle practice among public servants. Objective:This study aimed to assess healthy lifestyle practice level and associated factors among public servants working in Fiche Town, Oromia, Ethiopia. Methods: From April 1 to 30, 2022, 630 public servants participated in an institutional-based cross-sectional study. A self-administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the participants. The data were entered into Epi-Data version 4.6 and then exported to SPSS version 26 for analysis. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentages, mean, and standard deviation were used to summarize the data. Variables that scored a p-value of less than 0.2 during the bivariate analysis were included in multilevel logistic regression. The odd ratio with a 95% confidence interval was estimated at the level of significance set at 0.05. Result: - The magnitude of poor health lifestyle practice among Fiche town public servants was 45.2% with a 95% confidence interval (CI) (41.4, 49.4). The study participants had poor attitude (23.7%), poor health lifestyle knowledge (55.4%), and poor physical activities (40.2%). The study participants who had a poor attitude, poor knowledge, poor physical activities, avoided extra salt from their diet, and knew about chronic non-communicable diseases were factors significantly associated with healthy lifestyle practice. Conclusion: Generally, a healthy lifestyle practice among public servants was poor in Fiche Town. Therefore, public servants should be educated and counselled on the recommended healthy lifestyle practices that may help them avoid chronic non-communicable diseases and premature death.