Objectives: To determine the statues of participant's knowledge about SB PA and its adverse effect on health among office working adults in southern Ethiopia.
Methods: It was a cross sectional study conducted in SNNPR region in Ethiopia, 2015. 375 representative samples were selected using stratified cluster sampling method ranging from18 - 65 years old adults and 59.7% (222) men and 40.7% (150) women. The amount of error can be tolerated, that is with margin error of 5%, 95% confidence level and 50% response distribution. Descriptive and inferential statistics was run using IBM SPSS Statistics version 20. Data were collected using 10 self reporting Knowledge assessing questionnaires about SB PA and its adverse effect on people health. Contingency table the descriptive statistic of knowledge versus demographic variables and Chi-square independent test was used to ascertain and summarize the relationship between knowledge status and demographic variables was explored statistical analysis.
Result: The majority (85.3%) of the study population was found lacking adequate knowledge where as only (14.7%) were achieved the criteria for having adequate knowledge. Inadequacy of knowledge was higher in women than in men. The association between gender and Knowledge of leveling category of life style revealed (x2 (1) = 18.849, p = 0.000), and Knowledge of Recommended amount of PA for good health (x2 (1) = 9.086, p = 0.003) was so statistically significant and the association was negative and weak (−0.224) and (− 0.156) respectively.
Conclusion: Population based information systems; organized media utilizations; monitory of public response; community discussion; formal courses incorporated in curriculum; social agent's active involvement etc… are important to improve knowledge about SB PA the contemporary pandemic.
Inadequacy, Knowledge, Physical Activity, Sedentary behavior
