Assessment of Healthy Life Style among Medical Students in Alzaeim Alazhari University, Khartoum, Sudan 2021-2022

Abstract

Ayah Ahmed Mohamed, Elhassan Alawad, Mohammed Hammad Jaber*, Mohaned Awad Ibrahim, Marwan Abdullah Hasan Musaeed and Manal Ismail

Introduction: Lifestyle is the way which a person lives. This includes patterns of social relations, consumption, entertainment and dress. The term lifestyle also reflects an individual's attitudes, beliefs and, essentially, the way the person is perceived by himself/herself and, at times, also how he/she is perceived by others.

Methodology: Descriptive cross sectional, institutional based study. Targeting under graduated medical student of Alzaeim Alazhari university. Sampling method is Simple randomized sampling of 137 out of 985 medical stu-dents. The Dependent Variables are exercise/ diet/ sleep/ bad habit/ chronic illness. The Independent are age/ gender/ drug use. Data presentation by self-administrated Questionnaires and analyzed by (SPSS). Version25.

Results: Most of participants aged from 23-25 years old, most are male, with good exercise history and good sleep history, high dietary quality. Most of participants have stress while least have bad habits and chronic dis-eases. Conclusion: good lifestyle can reflect the health status. However, it can be determining by exercise, dietary his-tory, sleep quality and bad habit in relation with the presence of chronic diseases. Most of participants have a good lifestyle and negative history of chronic diseases.

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