Identifying the challenges and the level of effectiveness of campus wellness initiatives among students and staffs in umk city campus

A wellness programme is to maintain and improve a person's health through a balanced diet, regular exercise, stress reduction, and disease prevention. There are various challenges that contribute to the lack of implementation of Campus Wellness Initiatives among students and staffs, including a...

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Main Authors: Husna Shahraini Burha’annuddin, Muhammad Nuriman Syafiq Lokman, Nur Syafiqah Amira Hamid, Nurul Zulaikha Azhan
Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
Language:English
Published: 2022
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/13910/1/FINAL%20REPORT%20%28W20%29.pdf
http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/13910/
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Summary:A wellness programme is to maintain and improve a person's health through a balanced diet, regular exercise, stress reduction, and disease prevention. There are various challenges that contribute to the lack of implementation of Campus Wellness Initiatives among students and staffs, including a lack of understanding about personal health, the problem of obesity, which limits daily mobility and causes fast food intake. As a result, participation in these wellness initiatives is reduced. Therefore, the study aimed to explore the effectiveness that motivate, to assess the extent of support provided by campus leadership support, to determine the level of awareness, to assess the level of interest and to investigate the level of satisfaction of facilities among students and staff in campus wellness initiatives. The study was conducted using a quantitative research approach which is through online questionnaire survey in Google Form to collect the data. There were the 362 respondent consists of students and staff from the UMK City Campus. Based on the research findings, the research objectives of motivation, leadership support, participant awareness and participant interest were supported except the facilities, -.230 is not significant. All the hypotheses have been accepted at a significant level of 0.01, meanwhile the facilities showed that is not significant at p > 0.05. A few implications related to the research study are the researcher is difficult to get superiors to become respondents, during covid 19, respondents lacked involvement in health initiatives and were unable to know the effectiveness of the program and the difficulty in finding journals related to the research topic being studied. The implications related to the study have been proposed by the researcher. Keywords: Campus Wellness Initiatives, Effectiveness, UMK City Campus.