Factors Associated with Quality of Life Among Students During the Transition from Pandemic to Endemic Phase

Abstract

Quality of life (QoL) is an individual’s perception of their position in life. This is about the culture and value system of someone’s lives, expectations, standards, and concerns with regards to physical capacity, psychological functioning, social relationships, and environment including students in tertiary education. This study aims to determine the significant predictor associated with the level of QoL among students in tertiary education. A cross-sectional design using a simple random sampling technique was carried out among students in one university in Western Malaysia. WHOQoL-Bref is the instrument used to gather the responses on QoL. Descriptive mean and standard deviation statistic, Binary Logistics Regression (BLR), and Chi-Square analysis were conducted to gain significant findings from the data. It was found that majority of the students are in poor state of QoL. This study confirmed that gender, age, and level of education are the significant predictors that associated to the students’ QoL state (p<0.05). This research shall be expanded to larger group and adding predictor variables that might contribute to QoL.