Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor

Allergic disease is a worldwide public health issues and substantially growing over the past 20 years. Due to drastically changes of environmental and dietary culture within the population, Malaysia as one of the developing country is no exception to face the same problem. This study aimed to assess...

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Main Authors:	Tengku Azhar, Tengku Norbaya, Mohamed, Malissa, Abdul Ghani, Radiah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2019
Subjects:	RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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spelling	iium-763322020-02-21T06:13:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/76332/ Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor Tengku Azhar, Tengku Norbaya Mohamed, Malissa Abdul Ghani, Radiah RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Allergic disease is a worldwide public health issues and substantially growing over the past 20 years. Due to drastically changes of environmental and dietary culture within the population, Malaysia as one of the developing country is no exception to face the same problem. This study aimed to assess the awareness of allergy diseases and its prevalence using cross-sectional survey method. This study that has been conducted to 138 students from University Teknologi Mara Cawangan Dengkil, Selangor, Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. Based on sociodemographic data, the mean of knowledge between science and non-science students showed the significant difference. Respondents from Science course score significantly higher for part B (4.54 ± 1.654) compare with other courses. The outcome of the study also showed that, among 138 respondents, n=80 (58%) of them perceived themselves to suffer allergy diseases and it symptoms. Common food to cause food allergy in this study were identified as seafood with n=43 (31.25%) followed with dust with n=40 (29%), peanuts with n=14 (10.1%). The study also indicated the intricate situation of cross reactivity as n=21(15.2%), n=6 (4.3%) and n=1(0.7) of respondents suffered with two, three and four multi allergy reaction respectively. The factor such as family history which subjected to predisposition of genetic factor was strongly associated with occurrence of allergic among respondents. It determined from Chi Square Test (X²) that showed that, there is high significant association (P<0.001) between parental allergies with respondents allergies. As overall, it can be conclude that the knowledge of allergy term, cause and prevention were relatively low among population under study as compared to the previous study. Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2019-11-13 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/76332/7/76332_Socio-demographic%20Factors%20of%20Allergy%20Awareness_proceeding_new.pdf Tengku Azhar, Tengku Norbaya and Mohamed, Malissa and Abdul Ghani, Radiah (2019) Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor. In: The International Conference on Environmental Sustainability and Social Science Management 2019 (ICESM 2019), Bukit Gambang Resort City, Pahang. https://umpconsultancy.com/wp/abstract%20compilation%20full.pdf
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description	Allergic disease is a worldwide public health issues and substantially growing over the past 20 years. Due to drastically changes of environmental and dietary culture within the population, Malaysia as one of the developing country is no exception to face the same problem. This study aimed to assess the awareness of allergy diseases and its prevalence using cross-sectional survey method. This study that has been conducted to 138 students from University Teknologi Mara Cawangan Dengkil, Selangor, Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. Based on sociodemographic data, the mean of knowledge between science and non-science students showed the significant difference. Respondents from Science course score significantly higher for part B (4.54 ± 1.654) compare with other courses. The outcome of the study also showed that, among 138 respondents, n=80 (58%) of them perceived themselves to suffer allergy diseases and it symptoms. Common food to cause food allergy in this study were identified as seafood with n=43 (31.25%) followed with dust with n=40 (29%), peanuts with n=14 (10.1%). The study also indicated the intricate situation of cross reactivity as n=21(15.2%), n=6 (4.3%) and n=1(0.7) of respondents suffered with two, three and four multi allergy reaction respectively. The factor such as family history which subjected to predisposition of genetic factor was strongly associated with occurrence of allergic among respondents. It determined from Chi Square Test (X²) that showed that, there is high significant association (P<0.001) between parental allergies with respondents allergies. As overall, it can be conclude that the knowledge of allergy term, cause and prevention were relatively low among population under study as compared to the previous study.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Tengku Azhar, Tengku Norbaya Mohamed, Malissa Abdul Ghani, Radiah
author_facet	Tengku Azhar, Tengku Norbaya Mohamed, Malissa Abdul Ghani, Radiah
author_sort	Tengku Azhar, Tengku Norbaya
title	Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor
title_short	Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor
title_full	Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor
title_fullStr	Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor
title_full_unstemmed	Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor
title_sort	socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in selangor
publisher	Universiti Malaysia Pahang
publishDate	2019
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Socio-demographic factors of allergy awareness among pre-university student in Selangor

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