A Study of Health and Wellness and its Knowledge among Non-Teaching Staffs of College of Applied Medical Sciences, AlMajmaah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue 3
Abstract
The aim of this study was to find the health and wellness and its knowledge among non-teaching faculty working at college of applied medical sciences in kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A cross sectional study was conducted among 60 individuals whoever working as non-teaching staffs in college of applied medical sciences without any age restriction. In this present study health risk factors high among both genders was BMI, Cholesterol, Exercise, Nutrition and cancer risk comparatively with other health risk factors like Diabetes, Blood pressure, Smoking, Alcohol and Stress. The mean age of male is 33.7 and female is 35.1 years. This study reveals that health risk factors among the participants 25 (43%) of the individuals were in low risk with a mean score between 81-100, 19 (32%) were in intermediate risk with scores between 61-80 and 16 (25%) of the individuals were < 61 were under high risk. The knowledge of health and wellness among the participants was 38 (63%) scored less than 49%, 13 (22%) scored in the range between 50 to 74%, 9 (15%) scored above 75%. This study reveals a need to initiate life style modification to reduce the health risk factors and also need necessary health awareness programme at college level to reduce the prevalence and incident towards health-related problems.
Authors and Affiliations
Mazen Alqahtani, Anandh Vaiyapuri, Mohamed Seyam, Ghada Shawky, Hariraja Muthusamy, Prashant Kashyap, Abdulaziz Alkathiry, Shady Alshewaier, Ahmad Almansour, Dana Al Yahya, Altaf Almutairi
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- DOI 10.18311/ajprhc/2018/20734
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