Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah

As age deteriorates, most of body system will deteriorates as well, same goes to reproductive health. Wide gap between the prevalence of reproductive health disorders and rates of treatment seeking among middle aged and older men are still low compared to other chronic disease. In Islam, seeking med...

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Main Authors: Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman, Mat Yusof, Afzan
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Language:English
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Published: 2016
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spelling iium-568292019-06-26T03:11:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/ Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman Mat Yusof, Afzan Q Science (General) As age deteriorates, most of body system will deteriorates as well, same goes to reproductive health. Wide gap between the prevalence of reproductive health disorders and rates of treatment seeking among middle aged and older men are still low compared to other chronic disease. In Islam, seeking medical treatment for the cure of diseases is part of the prophet’s tradition and in a saheeh hadith that the prophet (s.a.w.) said the following:“For every disease there is a medicine, and if that medicine is applied to the disease, he will recover by Allah’s Leave.” Therefore the aim of this study is to identify health seeking behavior among men regarding men’s health disorders in Kuantan. 157 respondents are involved in this study and the data was collected using self-administered questionnaire modified from a valid and reliable measure. The results showed that 68.2% of the respondents (n=107) have high attitude in seeking for health regarding men’s health while for the rest of the respondents (n=50, 31.8%) have low attitude in seeking for health. Service factor perceived the highest among the other two factors which are cultural and economic factor. This study showed that men’s health that includes reproductive disorders has always been taken lightly by the community itself. Lack of awareness regarding men’s health issue causes men to ignore the importance of health screening towards men’s health. This phenomenon should be improved in order to produce a healthy community for better ummah. 2016-10-21 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/1/Conference%202WCII2016%203.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/7/56829_Health%20seeking%20behavior%20regarding%20men%E2%80%99s%20health_SCOPUS.pdf Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman and Mat Yusof, Afzan (2016) Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah. In: 2nd World Congress on Integration and Islamicisation: Focus on Medical and Health Care Sciences (2WCII 2016), 21st-23rd Oct. 2016, Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur. http://www.iium.edu.my/wcii/
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Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman
Mat Yusof, Afzan
Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
description As age deteriorates, most of body system will deteriorates as well, same goes to reproductive health. Wide gap between the prevalence of reproductive health disorders and rates of treatment seeking among middle aged and older men are still low compared to other chronic disease. In Islam, seeking medical treatment for the cure of diseases is part of the prophet’s tradition and in a saheeh hadith that the prophet (s.a.w.) said the following:“For every disease there is a medicine, and if that medicine is applied to the disease, he will recover by Allah’s Leave.” Therefore the aim of this study is to identify health seeking behavior among men regarding men’s health disorders in Kuantan. 157 respondents are involved in this study and the data was collected using self-administered questionnaire modified from a valid and reliable measure. The results showed that 68.2% of the respondents (n=107) have high attitude in seeking for health regarding men’s health while for the rest of the respondents (n=50, 31.8%) have low attitude in seeking for health. Service factor perceived the highest among the other two factors which are cultural and economic factor. This study showed that men’s health that includes reproductive disorders has always been taken lightly by the community itself. Lack of awareness regarding men’s health issue causes men to ignore the importance of health screening towards men’s health. This phenomenon should be improved in order to produce a healthy community for better ummah.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman
Mat Yusof, Afzan
author_facet Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman
Mat Yusof, Afzan
author_sort Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman
title Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
title_short Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
title_full Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
title_fullStr Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
title_full_unstemmed Health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in Kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
title_sort health seeking behavior regarding men’s health disorders among government servants in kuantan: prevalence study towards healthy ummah
publishDate 2016
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/1/Conference%202WCII2016%203.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/56829/7/56829_Health%20seeking%20behavior%20regarding%20men%E2%80%99s%20health_SCOPUS.pdf
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