30Mar 2017

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE HABITS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN HAIL UNIVERSITY, SAUDI ARABIA.

  • 4th year medical student at University of Hail.
  • Family and Community Medicine Department, University of Hail.
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Knowing the medical students' knowledge, attitude and practices of nutritional and lifestyle habits helps to enhance the nutrition of the community, which will consequently lead to a healthier society, as they will constitute the main body of future physicians and professionals. We aimed to evaluate their nutrition knowledge, their eating habits and overall perception regarding importance of healthy eating habits and lifestyle habits of medical students of Hail University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . A cross-sectional study included 207 students between ages 19-24 years from basic and clinical levels in the faculty of medicine. A self-reported questionnaire was employed to assess perceived attitude and barriers to healthy practices by the study participants. Overall most medical students were aware of importance of minerals and vitamins in diet yet they were not practicing it adequately in their daily life but the majority of the students were not aware of the composition of balanced diet, improving nutrition knowledge, attitude and dietary practices through nutritional education may help to prevent many nutrition related diseases.

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[Abrar Naif Alsdairi, Adhwaa Abdullah Alsadoon, Hajeyah Sulyman Alrasheed, Muruf Zaid Alshalwah and Abeer Hassan Elhaj. (2017); KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE HABITS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN HAIL UNIVERSITY, SAUDI ARABIA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Mar). 2400-2408] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Adhwaa Abdullah Alsadoon

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3770      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3770

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