Nusrat Zareen, Rabia Farooq.
A "KAP" survey of female undergraduate medical students of an Arab community, regarding coronary heart disease and its association to eating habits and physical inactivity.
Isra Med J Jan ;7(2):108-10.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of female undergraduate medical students regarding coronary heart diseases. STUDY DESIGN: A survey research. st st PLACE AND DURATION: Public University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1 November – 31 December 2013. METHODOLOGY: A questionnaire was designed to reflect the knowledge, attitude and daily practices of the students. A total of 100 nd rd students, from 2 and 3 year Medical program of a public university in Saudi Arabia were randomly distributed the questionnaire. Incomplete forms were excluded from the study (n=97). After filling in the responses, a percentage analysis was done. RESULTS: The results reflected a deficient knowledge of coronary heart diseases among students, especially unawareness of the risk factors. Fifty one and 38% of the students respectively did not know the association of physical inactivity and over-eating, to coronary heart disease. Non-healthy attitudes and practices of frequent junk food consumption (30%), overeating (13%), and inactive lifestyle (77%) was observed in the survey. CONCLUSION: Proper counseling and training of the medical students for better understanding of the disease and its risk factor prevention is required.

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