Occurrence of common diseases due to habitual food habit or other habit among the students from different regions of Chattogram, Bangladesh

Mohammed Jahedul Islam; Abdullah A. Mamun; Pabitra Debnath; Farida Siddika

doi:10.18203/issn.2454-2156.IntJSciRep20200648

Authors

Mohammed Jahedul Islam Department of Public Health, University of Creative Technology Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Abdullah A. Mamun Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Pabitra Debnath Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Farida Siddika Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-2156.IntJSciRep20200648

Keywords:

Students, Hygiene practice, GI disorder, Water intake, Metabolism, Skin disease, Weakness of eyesight

Abstract

Background: There are some common diseases found among the students of different areas in Bangladesh which are either communicable or non-communicable. Different infectious diseases occur due to lack of hygiene practice and non-infectious diseases are developed because of many irregular daily habits all over the world. Our aim was to evaluate the habit of practicing hygiene and other daily activities to observe their impacts on the health status among the students from different regions of Chattogram in Bangladesh.

Methods: With ethical approval, questionnaire forms of daily habits/activities were filled up by 750 students of different educational institutions. The data were analysed afterwards.

Results: Among the population of the study 89% (n=667) students were found to take regular bath; hand washing was regular among 32% (n=240) students, 54% (n=405) students were irregular in hand washing and the rests wash their hands rarely; on the other hand 41% (n=308) students consume street foods regularly; 38% (n=285) students wear eyeglasses due to weak sight; 23% (n=173) suffer from different skin diseases and 63% (n=473) students usually suffer from different gastro intestinal diseases.

Conclusions: Our results are not so frustrating, but also not so much good as majority of the students are fond of unhealthy street foods, don’t wash hands regularly and more than half of the students suffer from GI tract diseases with other health problems. It could be recommended that some daily habits including avoiding street foods, intake of sufficient drinking water and hygiene practices should be improved more.

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