A Study of Health and Wellness and its Knowledge among Non-Teaching Staffs of College of Applied Medical Sciences, AlMajmaah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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.Wellness Institute, wellness is considered, "an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence" 3 . There will be an economic burden if the working adults are unhealthy due to severe loss of production 4 . Thus, to progress in productivity and improve health many workshops are conducted at workplace 5 . The major risk factors for the long term medical illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and obesity are closely associated with unhealthy life style 6 .

Physiotherapist as Health Promotion Practitioners in Primary Health Care (PHC) in Riyadh City

“…The physiotherapists examined the abnormalities in the body and took effect as well as tame steps to reduce the attack of diseases. In this way, there is a positive influence of physiotherapists in primary healthcare and greatly contributes to making life quite easy for the public [20]. Primary healthcare is associated with reducing big healthrelated issues, and it plays a role in improving the way of life.…”

“…Working-class involves multiple difficult tasks while the physiotherapists always loom after the working class and take care of them after they suffer from the injury. Injury management is critically important as injury leads to destroying the career of the people while physiotherapists help the people to manage their injury in the right way that there will be no big issues arise [20]. On the other hand, maintaining health is a key factor that greatly contributes to the livelihood of the people.…”

“…The p-value of the multiple linear regression analysis is used to examine the association between the dependent and the independent variables; if the p-value is less than 0.05 indicates the two variables are significantly associated with each other, or the increase in the value of one variable leads to increase in the value of the other variable. It is one of the most commonly used techniques in the research, which helps to understand the association dependent and the independent variables, and it also examined the change in the dependent variable as the result of the change in the independent variables [20].…”