Volume 13, Issue 2A and 2B, 2025

Preventive Practices and Determinants of Exposure to Occupational Health Hazards Among Female Hairstylists in Ikeja Division of Lagos State

Waliu Babatunde Ogunbamowo, Bidemi Bilkis Lafiaji-Okuneye, Ashon Daniel Oluwatobi & Nwonwu Ebube Gloria

Abstract

The study assessed the preventive practices and determinants of exposure to
occupational health hazards among female hairstylists in Ikeja Division of
Lagos State. Two research questions and hypothesis were postulated for this
study. Descriptive survey design was adopted, the study sample was drawn
from Agege, Mushin, Alimosho, Ikeja and Oshodi-Isolo Local Government
Area of Lagos State. The local government were purposively selected because
the researcher observed a significant number of hairdressers and the activities
of the hairdressers’ association in these communities. A total of four hundred
(500) female hair stylists were randomly selected for the study. A review of
related literature was carried out for a good background for this study. Data
were collected with the use of a self-developed questionnaire titled: Female
Hairdresser
Occupational
Hazards
Questionnaire (FHOHQ). The
questionnaire was drawn based on a four point Modified Likert Scale. The
instrument was validated by experts in the Department of Human Kinetics,
Sports, and Health Education and Department of Community Health College
of Medicine Lagos State University for the face and content validity of the
instruments. The reliability of the instrument was ensured using test-retest
method and reliability coefficient of 0.76 was recorded and considered
appropriate. Descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentage were
used to analyse the demographic characteristics of the respondents, while the
inferential statistics of regression analysis was used to analyse the stated
hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.

Keywords

Hairstylist, hairstylist apprentice, musculoskeletal disorder, practices. preventive

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