A STUDY ON MEDICAL FITNESS OF UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS WITH REFERENCES FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR HEALTH
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 61
Abstract
BACKGROUND The medical students undergoing MBBS course are busy all the time in their lessons and other academic activities. There is hardly any time of taking care of their health and they are reluctant to exercise. They also suffer from various mental stress and strain in their long study periods. So, after passing out, they may lose their firmity and may be a victim of chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, etc. So, it is very urgent to do some interventions to maintain the physical and mental health of the medical students, as they are the future healthcare providers of our society. Our primary aim was to find out the different health problems among undergraduate medical students. The objectives were to find out the causes of absenteeism in the classes and take opinion from the students for improvement of their health status. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted to understand the present scenario of the health status among the undergraduate medical students of 3rd year MBBS batch in a medical college at Kolkata. The survey was questionnaire-based study among the students containing 15 questions and also their own suggestions for betterment of their health. Questions were prevalidated by faculty members and response of the students were analysed by statistical methods. RESULTS Out of 198 students in the class 148 students (Response rate 74.7%) took part in the study, of whom 105 were male and 43 were female. It was found that only few students did physical exercise daily and few practiced yoga on a regular basis. It is also seen that most of the students had got sick and there was a large number of sickness absenteeism in the last year. Most of the students gave their opinion for recruitment of yoga or physical instructor in the college and need of a gymnasium. CONCLUSION It is concluded that lack of regular exercising may cause infirmity and ill health in medical students. Now, it is the prime need for starting of gymnasium and recruitment of gym and yoga instructor in every medical colleges to look after the health of medical students for a bright future.
Authors and Affiliations
Amit Kumar Ghosh, Mausumi De, Anup Das, Subrata Das, Sudip Barua
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