Health condition and perception of lifestyles in members of the community Specialized University of the Americas

Abstract

The perception of health status and lifestyles become important as an essential element to strengthen university work environments with administrators and teachers and incorporate future professionals with appropriate lifestyles into students and establish a framework to meet the SDGs (García-Arce, Pérez - Ramírez -Gutiérrez Barba, 2021). The study aims to analyze the relationship between the perception of health status and lifestyles in collaborators of the university. This research work is within the quantitative, non-experimental, cross-correlational paradigm. The calculated stratified sample was 362 between administrators, teachers, and students. A total of 636 administrative teachers and students participated in the study. To measure the perception of the state of health, questions were taken related to the suffering of diseases and attendance at the doctor, weight, and height, emerging four categories (Very low, low, high, very high) and for lifestyles, the evaluation of lifestyles. of healthy life (risk, with and without risk, adequate, healthy) carried out by Mora and Munera (2015). Results: The perception of lifestyles was characterized between adequate and healthy in the three groups and the state of health was classified between high and very high. Conclusion: At a significance level of 5%, there is a positive correlation between the state of health and the lifestyle of the administrative, teaching and student staff of the Specialized University of the Americas.