STUDENTS’ HEALTH STATUS IN A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA- A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Author(s)

Prajapati SK1, Iqbal DM2, Sahu VK3, Akram W4, Verma MK5, Paliwal N6, Tahir M7, Mohiuddin SG8, Ahmed MU7
1AIMST University Malaysia, Sungai Petani, Malaysia, 2AIMST University,, Bedong, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia, Malaysia, 3Maharana Pratap College of Pharmacy MPCP, Kanpur, India, Kanpur, India, Pakistan, 4AIMST University,, Bedong, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia, Pakistan, 5New pulse Hospital Kalyanpur, India, Kanpur, India, Pakistan, 6AIMST University Malaysia, Sungai Petani, Pakistan, 7University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan, 8AIMST University, Sungai Petani, Malaysia

OBJECTIVES:  To access health of medical and paramedical students and find out current major and minor illnesses and also evaluate the correlation of illnesses with last year illnesses. METHODS:  A cross-sectional, descriptive study carried out using convenience sampling. A pre-validated questionnaire is distributed in university. The response items were on close-ended and likert scale options. Descriptive statistics (SPSS version 20) is applied, means, standard deviations, and frequency distributions calculated. Pearson coefficient of correlation test also used to analyze data and p ≤ 0.05 is considered s significant for all study variables. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed via Cronbach’s Alpha measure (0.704). RESULTS:

Conference/Value in Health Info

2017-05, ISPOR 2017, Boston, MA, USA

Value in Health, Vol. 20, No. 5 (May 2017)

Code

PHS187

Topic

Epidemiology & Public Health

Disease

Multiple Diseases

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