Tình trạng dinh dưỡng và một số yếu tố liên quan của sinh viên Y1 Trường Đại học Y Hà Nội

Abstract

This is cross-sectional descriptive study of 374 freshmen at Hanoi Medical University in 2020 to describe their nutritional status and associated factors. The 374 studied cases consisted of 31.5% male and 68.5% female. 97.3% were 18 years old and 2.7% were over 18 years old. The nutritional status is measured through body mass index (BMI). The logistic regression model is used to evaluate the relationship between nutritional status and various factors. The results showed that 6.7% of students were overweight-obese; among this group 16.1% were male and 2.3% were female. The prevalence of chronic energy deficiency was 31.0%, 19.5% in men and 36.3% in women, mainly with chronic energy deficiency grade 1 (68.9%) Research shows that physical activity, gender, nutritional status self assessment and nutritional status of students are related to each other. It is necessary to have interventions to prevent the overweight-obesity trend to improve the chronic energy deficiency and to improve the students’ quality of life.