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Preventive Medicine 2018 Journal of Preventive Medicine
ISSN: 2572-5483 Page 28
July 16-17, 2018
London, UK
9th Edition of International Conference on
Preventive Medicine
& Public Health
Background: Unhealthy lifestyle lead to several comorbidities,
harm to health and increase risk of many diseases. Although
it is well known that the health colleges students have greater
awareness about the healthy life style compared to non-health
science students. However, the awareness doesn’t mean that
they are practicing the healthy habits and diet in their life.
Because the health college students experience more stress
and lack of time, thus they have unhealthy diet and less
physical activity, therefore they are going to fail in promoting
the health education and promotion of their patients as future
health care practitioners
Objective: To evaluate the impact of knowledge, Attitude of
health college students towards lifestyle modifications during
clinical Training.
Design: A cross-sectional study
Setting: Health sciences colleges in different universities in
Saudi Arabia
Subjects: All students in health sciences colleges in their
clinical training years including interns
Results: Overall response rate was 100%(1005/500). 21%
were males and 79% were females. The smoking rate among
the preclinical students (23.0%) was higher than the clinical
students(18.7%)(p=0.159). While, the smoking rate among the
colleges, the nursing ranked as the highest (26.4%) and it was
the least among college of dentistry (7.8%)(p < 0.0004). among
males and females, and it was 31.2% and 16.5%, respectively(p
< 0.0004). The healthy diet habits rates in preclinical it was
(66.7%) and clinical students (65.5%)(p=0.756). We measured
the physically active students prevalence and It was 43.2% in
preclinical and 48.2% in clinical students(p=0.04). Whereas the
prevalence of physically active students among the colleges
was 63.5% in college of medicine, 76.4% in the college
of nursing (p=0.025). The improvement of lifestyle after
joining the college in terms of taking multivitamins without
prescription among the preclinical students (29.1%) and
clinical students(35.1%) (p=0.042). also in terms of performing
routine checkup among the preclinical students (29.1%) and
clinical students (38.4%)(p=0.019).
Conclusion: The main finding of our study was that Clinical
students generally improved their behavior more than
preclinical.
Biography
Wafa Alsalem is a student at princess nourah bint abdul Rahman university,
Saudi Arabia.
The impact of knowledge, Attitude of health college students
towards lifestyle modifications during clinical Training in
Saudi Arabia
Wafa Alsalem
Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, Saudi Arabia
Wafa Alsalem, J Prev Med 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2572-5483-C1-002