Employees’ Health-Promoting Lifestyle and System Stressors as Predictors of Health and Well-Being in a State University, in Northern Mindanao

This study described the health-promoting lifestyle, the level of health practices compliance and the system stressors, and determined the level of health and well-being and of MSU-IIT faculty. A non-experimental descriptive, mixed (qualitative and quantitative) research design was used. Thirty- three faculty respondents answered an 8-sectioned questionnaire describing their health promoting lifestyle, the level of health practices compliance and system stressors while the dependent variable was health and well-being of a hypertensive faculty. The intervening variables were the demographic data (age, gender, marital status, religion, highest level of educational attainment, length of experience, amount of duties and heredofamilial diseases). Using Pearson Product-movement, T-test and chi-square correlations, the following conclusions were derived: 1) there are positive and negative correlations between the independent and dependent variable; and 2) there is an intervening effect between the independent and dependent variables with the intervening variables. This study increases understanding of the deleterious effects of hypertension towards health and awareness of lifestyle and behavior that enhance well-being.

 

Keywords - hypertensive faculty, health-promoting lifestyle, health practices compliance, system stressors