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Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
BACKGROUND: Eating habits are a major concern with regard to the health status of university students. This study aimed to identify patterns of eating habits among undergraduate medical students and to investigate their relationship to sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and psychological factors. METH...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062392/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32184649 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S246296 |
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author | Alzahrani, Sami H Saeedi, Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Baamer, Maan Khaleed Shalabi, Abdullah Faisal Alzahrani, Abdullah M |
author_facet | Alzahrani, Sami H Saeedi, Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Baamer, Maan Khaleed Shalabi, Abdullah Faisal Alzahrani, Abdullah M |
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description | BACKGROUND: Eating habits are a major concern with regard to the health status of university students. This study aimed to identify patterns of eating habits among undergraduate medical students and to investigate their relationship to sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and psychological factors. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 378 undergraduate medical students aged 19–26 from the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Students were in their second through sixth academic year. Data were gathered with a self-administered questionnaire encompassing questions on sociodemographics, eating habits, and psychological factors. RESULTS: Eating habits score was much lower among students who were smokers, lived in rented places, lived alone, had separated parents, and did not exercise regularly. In multivariate analysis, multiple psychological factors, such as living alone and stressed, were found to be associated with eating patterns. CONCLUSION: A majority of undergraduate medical students had unhealthy eating patterns, and socioeconomic and psychological elements were significantly affecting eating patterns. |
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spelling | pubmed-70623922020-03-17 Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Alzahrani, Sami H Saeedi, Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Baamer, Maan Khaleed Shalabi, Abdullah Faisal Alzahrani, Abdullah M Int J Gen Med Original Research BACKGROUND: Eating habits are a major concern with regard to the health status of university students. This study aimed to identify patterns of eating habits among undergraduate medical students and to investigate their relationship to sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and psychological factors. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 378 undergraduate medical students aged 19–26 from the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Students were in their second through sixth academic year. Data were gathered with a self-administered questionnaire encompassing questions on sociodemographics, eating habits, and psychological factors. RESULTS: Eating habits score was much lower among students who were smokers, lived in rented places, lived alone, had separated parents, and did not exercise regularly. In multivariate analysis, multiple psychological factors, such as living alone and stressed, were found to be associated with eating patterns. CONCLUSION: A majority of undergraduate medical students had unhealthy eating patterns, and socioeconomic and psychological elements were significantly affecting eating patterns. Dove 2020-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7062392/ /pubmed/32184649 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S246296 Text en © 2020 Alzahrani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Alzahrani, Sami H Saeedi, Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Baamer, Maan Khaleed Shalabi, Abdullah Faisal Alzahrani, Abdullah M Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
title | Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Eating Habits Among Medical Students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | eating habits among medical students at king abdulaziz university, jeddah, saudi arabia |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062392/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32184649 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S246296 |
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