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Life Style Practices And Health Risk Behaviors Of Medical Students: A CrossSectional Study
ISSN: 2617 - 9482
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Life Style Practices And Health Risk Behaviors Of Medical Students: A CrossSectional Study
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ICC-0702
Publisher: Bahria University Medical And Dental College
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IAA.ZONE/261799019482
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Abstract
Objective: A health risk behavior like physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, tobacco use, drug abuse, unprotected sexualpractices or harmful use of alcohol is linked with serious ailments like liver cirrhosis, hypertension, abnormal lipid profileand number of cardiovascular diseases. Our study is aimed to explore perception of students about health risk behaviors;eating routines, life style and stress handling practices and compare amongst medical students of first and second year.Subjects and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 233 female students between 1 8–25 years of age, from first twoyears of medical college were administered a self-structured questionnaire Response of each item was rated on five-pointLikert scale. Maximum points in the scale were five and the minimum was one for each item. Mean score was obtainedby adding points of all responses. Degree of health awareness was categorized into low, medium and high on the ba...
