Assessing Health-Promoting Lifestyles of Students in an Omani University Environment: Implications for a Campus-based Health and Wellness Program
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https://doi.org/10.59573/emsj.7(5).2023.27Keywords:
health-promoting lifestyle, health-promoting university, health responsibility, lifestyle behaviorsAbstract
Health promotion among students has long been a concern of higher education institutions. The concept of health-promoting university urges higher education institutions to integrate health promotion into their culture and processes. To identify strategies that will create healthy campuses, studies recommend assessing first the health promotion behaviors of students. This study determined to what extent college students at a university in the Sultanate of Oman engage in health-promoting lifestyle behaviors. A descriptive cross-sectional investigation of 400 college students was conducted using the “Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II” questionnaire. Institutional ethical approval was granted. Results indicated a moderate health-promoting lifestyle profile score, with the participants showing low engagement in “health responsibility” and “physical activity”. Statistically significant variations exist between male and female, single and married participants in areas of “nutrition” and “interpersonal relations”; between age groups in areas of “health responsibility” and between types of accommodation in areas of “interpersonal relations” (p = .01). A low to moderate, positive correlation among dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle was statistically significant (p=.01). These findings suggest significant implications for the development of health and wellness programs in the university that will hopefully contribute to the realization of a goal to develop into a health-promoting university.
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