The Health Profile of the School Personnel of the St. Mary’s College, Quezon City: A Basis for a Proposed Health and Wellness Program

Abstract

School workers are the most valuable assets to schools. They are an inspiration to learn, strive, and achieve in an educational institution. In this study, the researchers assert means to ensure school workers deliver quality education to clients by keeping the focus on healthy employees. According to the Medical-Dental Clinic Guidebook 2018, health screening and promotion of health of school personnel are two of the components under Health Services of the comprehensive School Health Program of St. Mary’s College, Quezon City. These components are done through the Annual Physical Examination of personnel and health consultations with School Physicians. The purpose of this study was to determine the health profile of the school personnel of St. Mary’s College, Quezon City, which was used as a basis in designing a proposed health and wellness program. The study utilized the descriptive quantitative method of research, and total population sampling was employed. This included the data available at the Medical-Dental Clinic, which is the Annual Physical Examination Report and the Daily Consultation and Treatment Logbook of the school personnel employed during the school year 2017-2018. These data were then organized and presented in tabular form and information such as age, gender, work assignment, and common health concerns were used as the primary data of the study. The frequency and percentage distribution is a statistical approach used in the presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data. Results of this study reveal that the majority of the personnel were female. Most of the population falls under the age bracket of 20-30 years old and among the departments, Basic Education was noted to have the most number of personnel. Majority of the School Personnel’s Health Profile fall under Normal weight. Of which, the number came from the age bracket 61 and above. Furthermore, the majority of overweight personnel came from the age bracket of 31-40 years old. The highest number of personnel beyond the normal weight came from the Maintenance Services Personnel. The highest number of obese staff came from the Basic Education teaching force, and the most common health concern of personnel in the Medical-Dental Clinic is Blood pressure check/monitoring. With this, intensive health education and health surveillance through detection and control of non-communicable diseases while still of active working age of school workers during the follow-up consultations of personnel in the Annual Physical Examination as well as the planning of implementing a health and wellness program will be carried out. This will be done through health screening, health counseling, and healthy lifestyle lectures/classes as guidance to positive health effects and well-being of school workers. Therefore, restoring and maintaining the working capacity of school personnel.