Survey on Overall Health Conditions of University Students in Dhaka

A cross-sectional study was intended to calculate and associate the eating habits and lifestyle risk factors among 716 undergraduate students aged 19 to 55 of one of the private universities in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A questionnaire form was distributed amongst the students to detect the eating habits (number of meals, place of consuming, type of meal, foodstuffs), lifestyle factors (smoking, drug use, physical activity), and health status between university students. It has been calculated from data that height and weight are significantly weakly correlated. In addition there is substantial correlation between gender and smoking habit. Smokers have an addiction of taking recreational drugs, present illness with water condition and past illness. However, there are no significant correlation between smoking habit and allergic to smoke/dust, living place and financial support, breakfast and lunch sources with taking fast food, regular health check-up and giving Polio vaccine. Although there is no substantial correlation between regular health check-up and giving polio vaccines, regular health check-up shows a significant relation alongside the purpose of giving BCG, DPT, Measles, Hepatitis B vaccines. A significant correlation exist between giving the vaccines BCG with DPT, Polio, Measles, Hepatitis B and between giving the vaccines Measles and Hepatitis B.