Impact Assessment of the Quality of Life of the People of Oyo and Benin Towns: a Provisional Improvement

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to comparatively investigate the quality of life among the people of Oyo town and Benin City based on their general health, physical health, psychological health, social relationship and environment. The growth and development of the social and economic life of the people and their communities largely depends on good quality of life experienced by them. Having good quality of life makes people happy, satisfied, fulfilled and productive. Happy, satisfied and fulfilled people are usually favourably disposed to life and they make good use of life opportunities to better their lives. On the contrary, poor quality of life can lead to serious negative consequences. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised of 482 respondents. Two research questions guided the study, the questionnaire containing 26 items was the instrument used for data collection. Descriptive analysis was used in answering the research. The major findings of the study revealed that, the quality of life of the people of Oyo and Benin towns is slightly good. By implication therefore, the quality of life of the people of Oyo and Benin towns is poor. In conclusion, this poor quality of life can ultimately make the people of Oyo and Benin City become dejected with no fulfillment of life; leading to decrease in the standard of living. In view of this, it became imperative to come up with certain efforts that can be geared towards improving the quality of life of the people of Oyo and Benin towns. It is recommended that, the people should make effort to create the capacity to effectively take good care of themselves and their families and regularly to a maximum degree, participate in selected recreational/leisure activities that are tended towards improving their physical, mental, social, emotional and psychological health and wellbeing.