Self-rated health among information technology specialists and motivating factors to health promotion

Aim of the study: To find out how IT specialists self-rate health and reveal their opinion about motivating factors to health promotion. Methods: The object of the research is IT specialists from X office. During the anonymous survey 81 IT specialists had been questioned (response 79,4 %). The results obtained were analyzed using SPSS statistics 20 for Windows programme. Chi-Quadrat-Test () was used in hypothesis testing for correlation. Results: 70,4% IT specialists self-rate health as good. 67,9% males and 76,0% females self-rate health as good. 1,8% males self-rate health as bad. The respondents (aging 19-29) reported excellent or very good health. The oldest respondents (aging 52 and more) reported neither good nor bad health. Statistically important is the fact that a bigger part of non-smoking respondents self-rated health as good. These are the factors motivating IT specialists to health promotion: higher income (30,0%), feeling unwell (disease) (27,0%), knowledge (19,0%), stimulation of managers and colleagues (16,0%). Statistically important a bigger part of respondents who are satisfied with their jobs (85,0%) are in good health, those who are unsatisfied with their jobs are in bad or even poor mental and emotional health. Half of the respondents who self-rate health better than a year ago are satisfied with their jobs but one third of the respondents who self-rate health worse than a year ago are not satisfied with their jobs. Conclusions: More than two thirds of IT specialists questioned self-rated health as good. A bigger part of younger respondents self-rated health better than the older ones. Non-smokers self-rated health better than those who smoke. Factors motivating IT specialists to health promotion are: higher income, feeling unwell (disease), knowledge, stimulation of managers and colleagues. Statistically important a bigger part of respondents who are satisfied with their jobs are in good health