Association Between Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Health-related Quality of Life of Corporate Bank Workers in Resource-limited City

Objective: Promoting physical activity participation among highly sedentary workers is imperative to prevent the increasing rate of obesity and associated non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, stroke, diabetes, and other cardiovascular conditions among such workers. Corporate banking workers’ daily over-reliance on technology at the workplace adds to this sedentariness thus, preventing them from even engaging in leisure time activities. Research on leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among such workers in developing nations is clouded. This study investigates the level of LTPA and its influence on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of corporate banking workers in Ghana. Data description: This cross-sectional study surveyed 178 corporate bank workers, using convenient sampling methods, sampled from all clusters within the population. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire–Short Form (IPAQ-SF) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire–Brief Version (WHOQoL-BREF) were used to assess LTPA and HRQoL respectively. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the levels of LTPA and HRQoL, while regression analysis was performed to explore associations among the variables. Most of the workers reported moderate to low levels of LTPA but generally high HRQoL scores. No significant association was found between LTPA and HRQoL (0.8% variance).