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Health Perception Among Medical and Engineering Professionals:An Attempt to Investigate Meaning of Being Healthy


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1 Department of Community Medicine, SRM Medical College and Research Centre, Kattankulathur (T.N.), India
     

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Objective: To bring out prevailing perception on health among the medical and engineering professionals.

Methods: A cross- sectional study was carried out among 295 professionals (122 doctors and 173 engineers) administering a pre tested semi- structured questionnaire.

Results: Analysis of the 295 respondent's perception on health reveals that health means to them more of emotional and spiritual aspects of health followed by nutritional, vocational, and environmental aspect of health. The medical professional believes more on the job stress and lifestyle dimensions in contrast to the engineering professionals. The engineering professional believes more on the environmental dimension and vocational dimension (having a job) whereas not so in the medical professionals.

Conclusion: There is no much conceptual contrast in health perceptions between medical and engineering professionals both groups gave more importance to emotional and spiritual dimensions.


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Health Perception, Wellbeing, Medical Professionals, Engineering Professionals.
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Authors

A. K. Rajesh Babu
Department of Community Medicine, SRM Medical College and Research Centre, Kattankulathur (T.N.), India
M. Logaraj
Department of Community Medicine, SRM Medical College and Research Centre, Kattankulathur (T.N.), India
S. Gopalakrishnan
Department of Community Medicine, SRM Medical College and Research Centre, Kattankulathur (T.N.), India
N. Seetharaman
Department of Community Medicine, SRM Medical College and Research Centre, Kattankulathur (T.N.), India

Abstract


Objective: To bring out prevailing perception on health among the medical and engineering professionals.

Methods: A cross- sectional study was carried out among 295 professionals (122 doctors and 173 engineers) administering a pre tested semi- structured questionnaire.

Results: Analysis of the 295 respondent's perception on health reveals that health means to them more of emotional and spiritual aspects of health followed by nutritional, vocational, and environmental aspect of health. The medical professional believes more on the job stress and lifestyle dimensions in contrast to the engineering professionals. The engineering professional believes more on the environmental dimension and vocational dimension (having a job) whereas not so in the medical professionals.

Conclusion: There is no much conceptual contrast in health perceptions between medical and engineering professionals both groups gave more importance to emotional and spiritual dimensions.


Keywords


Health Perception, Wellbeing, Medical Professionals, Engineering Professionals.