1.Preclinical Students’ Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Towards Obesity And Overweight
Ravindran Jaganathan ; Vignesh Ramachandran ; Rajeswari Ravindran ; Sandheep Suganthan ; Nurulain Akmaliah Binti Ibrahim ; Muhammad AmirulSalihin Bin Badrool Hisham ; Muhamad Zahir Bin Mohamed Akib ; Mohd Rahimi Bin Zulkifli
Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 2019;19(1):41-46
		                        		
		                        			
		                        			The main objective is to createawareness and to assess the socio-demographic factors and BMI among pre-clinical students of  UniKL  RCMP towards  overweight  and  obesity  and to  determine  the correlation between  the  knowledge,  attitude,  and practice. A cross-sectional research was conducted among studentsusing questionnaire. All the questions in the questionnaire were  then  computed  as  the  variables  of  thestudy. Respondents  of  year  2  score  moderately in  which male  tends  to  score higher  (n=30)  than  female  (n=27)  towards  awareness  of  overweight  and  obesity.  Besides,  generally  respondents with  high household income (>RM9000) scored more awareness towards overweight and obesity. Furthermore, when taking hometown setting  as  a  factor,  respondent  who  lives  in  urban  site  tend  to  score  higher  (n=28)  than  the  other  two  regions. In year  1 students,the data showed that female had a better knowledge, attitude and practice than male based on gender. Medium income (RM4000-9000) respondent have a better awareness than high and low income. Lastly, respondent who lives in urban site  have  a  better  awareness  towards  overweight  and  obesity  compared  to  two  other  regions. In  conclusion  to  the study conducted, it is found that femaleshave more awarenesswhen compared with malestowards overweight and obesity.The suburban  people  have  higher  score  in  practiceto  overcome  overweight  and  obesity  but  lower  understanding  than  other regions. Thus,there  is  no  significant  correlation  between  gender,  household  income  and  region  on  awareness  towards overweight and obesity. However,there were noticeable differences among the three individual variables.
		                        		
		                        		
		                        		
		                        	
            
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