Impact of Eating Habits on Academic Performance among 4th year Medical Students of a Private College Faisalabad
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Academic Performance, Eating Habits, Medical StudentsAbstract
Objective: This study was designed to determine the relationship between eating habits and academic performance among medical students of Aziz Fatimah Medical and Dental College.
Study design & Setting: A comparative cross-sectional study was being conducted
Methodology: After the permission of the Ethical Research Committee of the institution. Students of 4th year MBBS was recruited by simple convenient sampling. A validated questionnaire consisting of 14 questions in reference to eating habits was used. Statistical analysis was done by SPSS version 24 and a one-way ANOVA test was used and p value of = 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: Study was conducted on 100 medical students with mean age of 22.67±.554. Out of 100 participants 51 (51%) were male and 49 (49%) were female students. It was observed that good eating habit score was associated with high academic achievements. While, a bad eating habit score was associated with low academic achievements.
Conclusion: It was concluded from our study that there was a significant association between good eating habits and academic performance.
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