12295

Lifestyle of Medical students at Qassim University

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Healthy lifestyle is an important element for success, especially for Medical students. It includes lots of items such as physical activity, diet, and sleep which we believe that these three items are the major for a healthy lifestyle. The aim of this study is to evaluate healthy and non-healthy behaviors including physical activity, diet and time devoted to sleep, leisure, stress, and smoking of medical students in Qassim region. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was targeted medical students at Qassim region in different cities (Buraydah and Unizah). A self-administered questionnaire was used. It included a domain for physical activity, time devoted for sleep, leisure, and smoking. Results: Around 714 medical students participated in this study, 467 (55.3%) males and 247 (44.7%) females. Regarding physical activity, it was found that one-third of the students excise 1-3 times per week. Regarding diet, 31% of students were always eating there breakfast. But, 81.8% were consuming fast food 1 to 6 times weekly. Furthermore, half of the students devoted 4-6 hours only for sleep during school days and during the weekend they sleep 7-9 hours. Time spent on a cell phone, computer, and surfing Internet (for leisure) was more than 4 hours for 32.5% during the week and it increases at the weekend to 51.9%. Conclusions: Lifestyle of the majority of the students were:  did not sleep enough, did not exercise, consumed fast food, and spent much time in usage of a cellphone, which are common habits among medical students of both genders. These habitats had a significant impact on their overall satisfaction of life and may affect their academic performance and general health.  

DOI

10.12816/0042586

Authors

First Name

Tameem A

Last Name

Alhomaid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Majed

Last Name

Wadi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohannad M

Last Name

Almanea

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdulrahman T

Last Name

AlTurki

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Bakr F

Last Name

Alharbi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Muhannad M

Last Name

Aldubaykhi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Layla M

Last Name

Alnashry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tabuk University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Bander A

Last Name

Alharbi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Rakan M

Last Name

Alahmad

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sulaiman S

Last Name

Alharbi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Fahad O

Last Name

Alharbi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Qassim University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

69

Article Issue

7

Related Issue

2208

Issue Date

2017-10-01

Receive Date

2018-09-03

Publish Date

2017-10-01

Page Start

2,918

Page End

2,929

Print ISSN

1687-2002

Online ISSN

2090-7125

Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/article_12295.html

Detail API

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=12295

Order

27

Type

Original Article

Type Code

606

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

Publication Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Lifestyle of Medical students at Qassim University

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023