Mohd Saliza, Wan Afiqah Nadhrah (2021) Sociodemographic Profiles, Sleep Quality, Food Group Consumption and Body Weight Status of Malaysian Undergraduate Students during The Covid-19 Movement Control Order. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
The global Covid-19 pandemic has sparked concern over several issues, including people's overall lifestyles. As a result of the pandemic, the Malaysian government has issued a movement control order (MCO), requiring all institutions of higher learning to conduct all learning activities entirely online. Since the learning process is entirely online, students face various challenges as the number of assignments and tasks increases. This issue impact the sleep quality, daily food group consumption, and body weight status of undergraduate students. This cross sectional study aimed to investigate the associations of sleep quality, food group consumption, and body weight status among Malaysian undergraduate university students during COVID-19 MCO. Online survey were distributed to 145 participants through various social media platforms. Data on sociodemographic profiles, sleep quality, food group consumption and self-report of anthropometry measures were administered online. Based on the finding, most of undergraduate university students has a normal body weight status (46.2%). The majority of participants of this study were 22 years old (80%), female (91.7%), Malay (93.1%) and Islam (95.2%). This study found that majority of the students has a fairly good subjective sleep quality (44.1%) and according to the food group consumption, drinks showed the most consumed among the food group with a median of 5.42 intake per day. In term of the association between sociodemographic profies and body weight status, there was a statistically significant, small positive correlation between age and body weight status (r= 0.179, p < 0.05) which indicates that those with older age were more likely to have higher BMI. However, this study found no statistically significant association between sleep quality and body weight status. For the association between food group consumption and body weight status, two food groups shown a significant association between food groups and body weights status that are cereals and cereals product and fish while others show a non-significant result. Cereals and cereal products had a statistically significant, positive correlation with body weight status ( r = 0.435 , p <0.05). This demonstrates that a higher intake of cereals and cereal products results in a high body weight status. Aside from that, there was a statistically significant, but minor, negative correlation between fish and seafood and body weight status ( r = - 0.185 , p <0.05). This study found that eating more fish resulted in a lower body weight status. To conclude, during COVID-19 MCO, age, cereals and cereal products, as well as fish and seafood consumption, were all associated to body weight status. However, in this study, the most of the components within sociodemographic profiles and food group consumption did not play a role in determining body weight status.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Mr Khoirul Asrimi Md Nor |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2023 07:18 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2023 07:18 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/930 |
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