Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia
Healthy and strong bones form the basis for a dynamic and energetic life. However, Malaysian university students still lack of knowledge towards positive bone health status and osteoporosis prevention and show a poor practice of healthy lifestyle. Therefore, this study was done to examine the relati...
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| description | Healthy and strong bones form the basis for a dynamic and energetic life. However, Malaysian university students still lack of knowledge towards positive bone health status and osteoporosis prevention and show a poor practice of healthy lifestyle. Therefore, this study was done to examine the relationship of Body Mass Index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students from the Faculty of Educational Studies in Universiti Putra Malaysia. A correlational study design was conducted to 281 undergraduate students aged 18 to 27 years old. The respondents were randomly chosen based on the stratified and cluster sampling technique. In this study, the eating attitudes were assessed using EAT-26 while, the physical activity level of the respondents was evaluated by using a shorter version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF). Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and BMI of the respondents were measured using calcaneal quantitative ultrasound (QUS) by using Sonost-3000 machine and weighing scale (SECA 767) respectively. From the independent sample T-test, there was a significant difference in the BMI categories (p= .022), eating attitude (p= .041), physical activity (p= .013) and BMD (p= .012) between male and female students. While from the Pearson correlation analysis, there was a weak relationship of BMI and BMD (r= .292), negative relationship of eating attitude and BMD (r= -.218) and strong relationship between physical activity and BMD (r=.731). Thus, the result of this study gives better information about how BMI, eating attitude and physical activities are essential to promote an improvement in BMD. A better understanding of the interactions of all these variables in this study will relate to positive bone health status and osteoporosis prevention among young adults, especially among the university students. |
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| spelling | upm-595472018-03-09T01:02:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59547/ Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia Omar Dev, Roxana Dev Henry, Ewiwe Healthy and strong bones form the basis for a dynamic and energetic life. However, Malaysian university students still lack of knowledge towards positive bone health status and osteoporosis prevention and show a poor practice of healthy lifestyle. Therefore, this study was done to examine the relationship of Body Mass Index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students from the Faculty of Educational Studies in Universiti Putra Malaysia. A correlational study design was conducted to 281 undergraduate students aged 18 to 27 years old. The respondents were randomly chosen based on the stratified and cluster sampling technique. In this study, the eating attitudes were assessed using EAT-26 while, the physical activity level of the respondents was evaluated by using a shorter version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF). Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and BMI of the respondents were measured using calcaneal quantitative ultrasound (QUS) by using Sonost-3000 machine and weighing scale (SECA 767) respectively. From the independent sample T-test, there was a significant difference in the BMI categories (p= .022), eating attitude (p= .041), physical activity (p= .013) and BMD (p= .012) between male and female students. While from the Pearson correlation analysis, there was a weak relationship of BMI and BMD (r= .292), negative relationship of eating attitude and BMD (r= -.218) and strong relationship between physical activity and BMD (r=.731). Thus, the result of this study gives better information about how BMI, eating attitude and physical activities are essential to promote an improvement in BMD. A better understanding of the interactions of all these variables in this study will relate to positive bone health status and osteoporosis prevention among young adults, especially among the university students. International Organization Center of Academic Research 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59547/1/323.pdf Omar Dev, Roxana Dev and Henry, Ewiwe (2016) Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia. In: 3rd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (SOCIO-INT 2016), 23-25 May 2016, Istanbul, Turkey. (pp. 857-863). http://www.ocerint.org/socioint16_e-proceedings/abstracts/a323.html |
| spellingShingle | Omar Dev, Roxana Dev Henry, Ewiwe Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia |
| title | Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia |
| title_full | Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia |
| title_short | Relationship of body mass index (BMI), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in Malaysia |
| title_sort | relationship of body mass index (bmi), eating attitude and physical activity on bone health among undergraduate students in malaysia |
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