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Public Health, Women's Health, Nursing and Hospital Management
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Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education | ISSN : 2161-0711 | Volume 08
A cross-sectional study of stress in relation to overweight/obesity
Saurabh Tripathi, Kriti Singh, Pankaj Chaudhary, Abid Ali Ansari and Seema Nigam
G.S.V.M Medical College, India
Introduction
: Stress may influence obesity behaviourally through stress related overeating as a medium of escaping emotional
distress. There is increasing prevalence of Obesity/Overweight among medical students mainly due to sedentary life, lack
of physical activity as well as stress due to academic pressure, insecurities about future, family and personal factors. Stress
is more among final year medical students more as compared to other years because of complexity of syllabus, academic
pressure, future insecurities and desire to excel in upcoming postgraduate medical entrance exams. We conducted a cross
sectional study on medial students and co related with overweight & obesity using predesigned & pretested questionnaire.
Objectives:
To determine the magnitude of stress among undergraduate MBBS students. To find out the magnitude of Obesity and
Overweight and illustrate relationship with stress, if any.
MaterialsandMethods:
Astudywill beconductedamong120final year studentsusinga self-administeredquestionnairecontainingquestions
regardingdietaryandpersonalhistoryandPerceivedStressScale(PSS).AnthropometricmeasurementsweretakentocalculateBMI.Durationof
studyistwomonthsDatawillbecollectedandtabulatedonMSExcelsheetandwillbeanalysedusingSPSSandconclusionwillbedrawnaccordingly.
Results:
Yet to be analysed, will be presented at the conference.
Conclusions:
Yet to be analysed, will be presented at the conference.
manu.tree@gmail.comJ Community Med Health Educ 2018, Volume:8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C7-051