Health Education and Physical Exercise as a Means to Reduce Fatigue Level and Stress For Academician in the International Islamic University Malaysia

Abstract

Abstract. College students are population that is prone to health problems. They have high frequency of learning activities, but they rarely add the activities with exercise affecting on the emergence of fatigue and stress. Based on the results of a survey on fatigue and stress levels of students at IIUM, it was found that 30% of them felt mild fatigue and 70% felt moderate fatigue. For stress levels, it is obtained that 40% of the students experienced moderate stress, and 30% experienced mild stress. This condition is not realized and if it continues, it will reduce the health status of the IIUM campus residents. So, efforts are needed to improve their health status. Community service activities have been carried out are by providing health education about the impact of work on fatigue and stress, followed by the practice of light physical exercise. The goals set include increasing knowledge about work stress and fatigue, reducing fatigue levels and reducing stress levels for IIUM campus residents. The participants who attended were 36 people. The results of the pre-test and post-test for knowledge about fatigue and stress was that almost all participants experienced a significant increase. The average value of the pre-test and post-test for the level of fatigue was 47.77, increasing to 94.72. For knowledge about stress, the average pre-test and post-test scores were 49.72 to 96.11. This community service shows that in the implementation of formal education in the classroom, having a risk of causing serious health problems, so that students and other campus residents are given informal educational content in the form of casual activities outside the classroom.