The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan

Eating habits among medical students are associated with stress of university life and unhealthy eating habit among young adults is a public health concern in Malaysia. This study is conducted to determine the eating habit and its relationship with stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM...

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Main Authors:	Pasi, Hafizah, Mohd Rus, Razman, Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim, Yusof, Muhammad Zubir, Nasreen, Hashima E, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Malaysian Public Health Physicians' Association 2018
Subjects:	RA Public aspects of medicine RA790 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine - Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention
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spelling	iium-653152018-10-22T06:53:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/65315/ The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Yusof, Muhammad Zubir Nasreen, Hashima E Ab Rahman, Jamalludin RA Public aspects of medicine RA790 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine - Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention Eating habits among medical students are associated with stress of university life and unhealthy eating habit among young adults is a public health concern in Malaysia. This study is conducted to determine the eating habit and its relationship with stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan. A cross sectional study was carried out among 250 undergraduate medical students using quota sampling. Self-administered online questionnaire consist of DASS-21 and Healthy Eating Assessment (Cronbach Alpha = 0.523) was distributed to Year 1 until Year 5. Data was analysed using SPSS software Version 23.0 and p value of <0.05 is taken as significant. 250 respondents consisting of 54.1% female with mean age of 22.89 (SD=1.571) and 95.6% of them unmarried were enrolled in this study. Majority have parents who attained university education and above (61.8% of father and 55% of mother). Mean Body Mass Index is 22.58 (SD=3.98), 24.7% practice regular exercise while only 5 respondents are current smoker. It is noted that there is a significant relationship between eating habits and stress level (p=0.004) with highest percentage of unhealthy eating habits among severe to extremely severe group (64.3%). There is no significant relationship between eating habits with other factors. Even though majority of the medical students in this study have healthy eating habits, result shows it is significantly related to stress. Therefore, students should manage their stress wisely to maintain healthy eating habits. Malaysian Public Health Physicians' Association 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/65315/1/65315_The%20relationship%20between%20eating%20habits.pdf Pasi, Hafizah and Mohd Rus, Razman and Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim and Yusof, Muhammad Zubir and Nasreen, Hashima E and Ab Rahman, Jamalludin (2018) The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan. Malaysia Journal of Public Health Medicine, 18 (Supplement 2). p. 68. ISSN 1675-0306 E-ISSN 2590-3829 http://www.mjphm.org.my/mjphm/
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topic	RA Public aspects of medicine RA790 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine - Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention
spellingShingle	RA Public aspects of medicine RA790 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine - Mental Health. Mental Illness Prevention Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Yusof, Muhammad Zubir Nasreen, Hashima E Ab Rahman, Jamalludin The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan
description	Eating habits among medical students are associated with stress of university life and unhealthy eating habit among young adults is a public health concern in Malaysia. This study is conducted to determine the eating habit and its relationship with stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan. A cross sectional study was carried out among 250 undergraduate medical students using quota sampling. Self-administered online questionnaire consist of DASS-21 and Healthy Eating Assessment (Cronbach Alpha = 0.523) was distributed to Year 1 until Year 5. Data was analysed using SPSS software Version 23.0 and p value of <0.05 is taken as significant. 250 respondents consisting of 54.1% female with mean age of 22.89 (SD=1.571) and 95.6% of them unmarried were enrolled in this study. Majority have parents who attained university education and above (61.8% of father and 55% of mother). Mean Body Mass Index is 22.58 (SD=3.98), 24.7% practice regular exercise while only 5 respondents are current smoker. It is noted that there is a significant relationship between eating habits and stress level (p=0.004) with highest percentage of unhealthy eating habits among severe to extremely severe group (64.3%). There is no significant relationship between eating habits with other factors. Even though majority of the medical students in this study have healthy eating habits, result shows it is significantly related to stress. Therefore, students should manage their stress wisely to maintain healthy eating habits.
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author	Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Yusof, Muhammad Zubir Nasreen, Hashima E Ab Rahman, Jamalludin
author_facet	Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Yusof, Muhammad Zubir Nasreen, Hashima E Ab Rahman, Jamalludin
author_sort	Pasi, Hafizah
title	The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan
title_short	The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan
title_full	The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan
title_fullStr	The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan
title_full_unstemmed	The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan
title_sort	relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of iium kuantan
publisher	Malaysian Public Health Physicians' Association
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/65315/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/65315/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/65315/1/65315_The%20relationship%20between%20eating%20habits.pdf
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The relationship between eating habits and stress among undergraduate medical students of IIUM Kuantan

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