Dept. of Fundamentals of Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing Manipal, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India
A healthy lifestyle is one that concerns with good physical and mental health. Physical health can be achieved by following a healthy diet, adequate rest and sleep and doing regular exercise.
A cross-sectional survey study was conducted to assess the lifestyle practices among 250 students of selected institutions of a University. The objectives were to assess the lifestyle practices of students; find the relationship BMI and lifestyle practices. The data were collected by administering a self-reported lifestyle practice scale. The content validity of the tool was established by giving to seven experts from different disciplines and modifications were made according to the suggestions. Reliability was established by using Cronbach alpha, the value estimated was 0.7. Purposive sampling technique was used in order to select the participants. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for analyzing the data. The results showed that the percentage of students belongs to less than 20 years of age was 70.8%. Most of the students ie 43.6% of them having 56 to 75kg weight and 42% with height of 161 to 170 cm. Majority (63.2%) of students were females and 87.2% with undergraduate education belongs to Hindu religion (37.6%). There was no relationship between lifestyle practice and nationality.
Health status, habits and behaviour, students, lifestyle practices
