1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Pacific Institute of Medical Science, Udaipur, Rajasthan
2Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Surat, Gujarat
3Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Surat, Gujarat
4Professor (Additional) and Head, Department of PSM, GMC, Surat
*Address for Correspondence: Dr. Piyush C Parmar Resident Doctor, Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Surat-395001 Gujarat, India, Mobile: 08866242682, E-mail: drpiyushparmar01@gmail.com
Online published on 4 January, 2017.
College students live away from home. They face transition to independent living and making independent food choices. This often results in imbalanced diet. Medical students are no exceptions and their dietary habits need to be studied.
1) To determine malnutrition, eating habit and physical activity and 2) To know the perception about their own health
It's cross sectional study done in a medical college of southern part of Gujarat
This was cross-sectional study carried out during August to September 2014 using a semi-structured self-administered questionnaire. Study variables were body mass index (BMI), eating habits, physical activity and their thoughts on their own dietary habit and life style. Data entry was done in MS Excel & data were analysed using SPSS vs 16 and Epi Info 2002.
Descriptive
Among 293 students 56% were girls & rest 44% were boys. There were 24.2% overweight & 33.1% were under-weight. More number of boys had a BMI > 23 (70.8%) whereas more number of girls had BMI < 18.5 (65.5%). Both boys and girls were of the opinion of hostel life, busy schedules and stress for increase or decrease in their weight.
Medical Student, Life style, BMI
