Abstract
Objective
Healthcare-seeking behavior (HSB) would affect the prevalence of morbidity and mortality. There are various factors that affect one’s HSB. This study aimed to determine if health awareness and lifestyle might relate to HSB.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was applied by using three questionnaires to determine participants’ health awareness, lifestyle, and HSB. This study took place in Universitas Advent Indonesia and the students were recruited to be participants.
Results
There were 39 participants joined in this study. Most of the participants were females, third-year students, and from Accounting major. Almost all participants were aware of their low risk of health issues, had a fine lifestyle, and had moderate HSB.
Conclusions
One’s urge to seek health care facilities was not related to their health awareness and lifestyle. There was no further study to contradict with this finding at this moment.