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alliedacademies
August 16-17, 2018 | Paris, France
Primary Healthcare
12th International Conference on International Conference and Medicare Expo on
&
Pediatrics Health Care
Joint Event
Journal of Current Pediatric Research | Volume: 22
The impact of knowledge, attitude of health college students towards lifestyle modifications during
clinical training in Saudi Arabi
Asma Almadani
Princess Noura bint abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia
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 takingmultivitamins
without prescriptionamong thepreclinical students (29.1%) and
clinical students(35.1%) (p=0.042). also in terms of performing
routine check-up 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 behaviour more than
preclinical.
Speaker Biography
Asma Almadani is a PhD student of Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University. She
is from Saudi Arabia.
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Asma Almadani, Pediatrics & Primary HealthCare 2018, Volume 22
DOI: 10.4066/0971-9032-C1-002