ALCOHOL INTAKE AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING AMONG COMMERCIAL DRIVERS IN IBADAN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA

Abstract

Alcohol use and cardiovascular risk among commercial drivers require closer study in Ibadan. The objective of the study is to examine the association between alcohol intake and physical wellbeing in an original driver survey and compare it with independently re-analysed published cardiovascular counts. The study employed a cross-sectional survey of 200 drivers in selected motor parks supplied a Pearson correlation between questionnaire measures; only its aggregate statistical output was available for this manuscript. Separately, published Ibadan alcohol-by-hypertension counts were reconstructed for 1,707 complete cases. Results: In the 200-driver survey, higher alcohol-intake scores were weakly associated with higher scores for physical wellbeing problems, r(198) = .236, p < .001. In the independent published sample, hypertension classifications occurred in 134/760 alcohol users (17.6%) and 92/947 nonusers (9.7%); the crude odds ratio was 1.99 (95% CI [1.50, 2.64]). The two samples cannot be pooled. Conclusion: These findings support confidential alcohol assessment and cardiovascular screening, while questionnaire validity, missing demographic data, sampling limits and cross-sectional confounding restrict causal and population claims.