The health promotion policy for students in a university

Abstract

This research was a cross-sectional descriptive study which the research instrument was a questionnaire. The purpose of this research was to study knowledge attitude, exercise behavior, and health promotion policy for students of a university. The questionnaire was distributed to sample 400 students of a university, from August to October of 2019. The data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, standard deviation, chi-square test, and fisher’s exact test.

            The results indicated that, majority of the sample consisted of females (85.8%) their age was between 21 to 23 years old (55.2%). For status majority was single (83.2%), studying in the 3^rd year (84.2%) with average income 5,000 baht per month (61.1%). Majority lived off campus and had a personal illness (9.8%). Majority of the sample exercised by walking (62.5%), with high level of knowledge and understanding of exercise (92.8%). Their attitudes, behaviors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors in exercise were at moderated level (73.5%, 60.5%, 87.2%, 64.2% respectively).

            From this study, factors related to knowledge attitude exercise behavior, and university health promoting policy, indicated that gender, accommodation, various exercise methods, enabling factors, reinforcing factors and health promotion policy, were associated with exercising behavior, with statistical significance. Therefore, The University should strengthen policy on health promotion to health and support students and personnel to exercise for their health. As well as providing equipment and exercise facilities for university personal to have a good quality of life.