A comparative study of health related quality of life among academician — A case study

Universities give a huge impact towards processes of economic development and social change of Malaysia. Therefore it is very crucial to retain a good quality of life among lecturers to ensure all these academic staffs have a high quality of teaching and also in conducting research. A study has been conducted to investigate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of lecturers at a public university in Selangor. A survey methodology using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire was utilised to collect the data. Descriptive analysis and multivariate test were used to analyse the data. The Malaysian general population norms were applied as a key indicator reflecting the various domains whether scores below or above the average of our country especially according to gender. In order to make a comparison between scores of lecturers with population norm for Malaysia, the means and standard deviation were presented.