Background: Medical education is stressful throughout the whole course. Due to the medical curriculum and the examination pattern leads to psychological stress. Stressful condition leads to irregularity in diet, frequent fast food consumption & lack of exercise, each being considered as an important risk factor leading to overweight and obesity. Hence, this study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of obesity, overweight and weight awareness among the medical students. Objectives: Determination of BMI status of undergraduate medical students to evaluate their weight awareness, prevalence of overweight and obesity and also find out the relationship of the following risk factors with obesity & overweight; i) Opinion about self-image, ii) Physical activity and iii) Frequency of fast food consumption. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted on 131 preclinical medical students of Ad-din Akij Medical College, Khulna from January 2018 to April 2018. Height and weight of 131 preclinical students were measured and Body Mass Index was calculated and categorized according to WHO criteria. Results: Out of 131 students 62% come under normal weight category, 21% come under overweight category, 10% come under obese category and 7% come under underweight category. Conclusion: Overweight is a rising problem among the medical students. Sedentary life style and frequency of fast food consumption was high among the overweight and obese students. This study itself created awareness about their weight and promote physical activity among the medical students. Mediscope Vol. 7, No. 2: July 2020, Page 103-107

Background: The actions, reactions, and thoughts of an individual are influenced by other people or groups. Factors influencing food choice are not only based upon individual preferences, but are constrained by circumstances that are social (such as peer pressure), cultural and economic. Objectives:To find out the relation of adolescent’s food habit with their socio-demographical condition. Methods: This was a cross-sectional type of descriptive study which was carried out among the students of Rev. Paul’s high school, Gallamari, Khulna city with a view to assess the relation of adolescent’s food habit with their socio-demographical condition. The sample size was 217 which were selected by systematic sampling method from adolescent (10 year-16 year) students of that school. Data was collected according to a partially structured questionnaire by face to face interview administered by interviewer. The frequency distributions of the entire variables were checked by using SPSS 16.0 windows program. Chi-square test was applied to find out the association between food habits of adolescents with the socio-demographic variables. Results: In this study it was found that only 21.7% of respondents have snacking (fast food/dairy food) behaviour at least three times per week. Among 217 of the respondents, 116 (53.5%) were girls and 107 (49.3%) were in between 13yr-14yr of age. There was no statistically significant positive relation in gender and age of respondents with eating habits. Among the respondents, 60 (27.6%) fell into upper income group, out of them 25 (41.7%) respondents likes to eat fast food/dairy food. Again 32(39.5%) out of total 81 (37.3%) respondents whose mothers worked outside of home liked to eat fast food/dairy food. The test revealed that there was statistically significant positive relation between economic condition and mother’s occupation of respondents with their eating habits. It was found that 120 (55.3%) had peer influence on their food choice. The study result statistically suggested that the more an adolescent is influenced by peers and friends, the more unhealthy will be the adolescent’s eating habits. In summary, it would appear that peer emerged as the single best predictor of eating habits among adolescents. Conclusion: The findings of the result might be helpful for developing awareness among adolescents as well as parents and teachers regarding unhealthy behavior of adolescents to reduce the risk of unusual health outcome as well as to know about the associated factors which are related to unhealthy behavior, thus helpful to cut-off the factors from daily life style and become healthy citizen. Mediscope Vol. 7, No. 1: Jan 2020, Page 38-43

Objective: This cross-sectional study was carried out among the students of Rev. Paul’s High School, Gallamari, Khulna to assess the adolescents' sedentary lifestyle and also the related factors. Methods: The sample size was 217 which were selected by systematic sampling method. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire by a face-to-face interview conducted by the interviewer. Results: In this study, it was found that only 43.3% of respondents had sedentary habits (watching TV, internet browsing, playing video games and not liking to go outside for playing in the field). Comparatively majority of girls (57.8%) were associated with sedentary habits. Otherwise whose mothers are educated were not associated with sedentary habits (62.9%). In this study, it was observed that among those who like fast foods, the majority had sedentary habits (24.5%). Also, about 64.3% of respondents who have sedentary habits were unwilling to perform outdoor physical activities like playing. Conclusion: The findings of the result might help develop awareness among adolescents as well as parents and teachers regarding the sedentary lifestyle to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes as well as to know about the associated factors. Thus, it will be helpful to minimize the factors from the daily lifestyle and become healthy citizens. Mediscope 2022;9(2): 68-74

Background: Unhealthy life style behavior of adolescents in developing countries like Bangladesh creates a tremendous public health burden. Mother's education is a particularly important factor affecting adolescent's life style behavior development. Objectives: The study was done to find out the adolescent's life style behavior and their relation with mother's education level that reflected their knowledge level. Methodology: This was a cross sectional descriptive study. Two hundred seventeen students were selected by systematic sampling method from adolescent (10-16 year) which was carried out among the students of Rev. Paul's high school, Khulna city from January 2015 to December 2015. Results: Among 217 students, 81.1% student have good personal hygiene practices which was statistically tested that revealed that there was positive relation between mother's knowledge level and adolescent's personal hygiene behavior. It was found that majority (56.7%) have no sedentary habit, among them 62.9% respondent's mother have higher educational knowledge level. So it was revealed that higher education level of mother decreased their child's sedentary habit. It was found that 53.2% child did not like to read book which was statistically not significant. From this result it was found that 56% mothers who have higher educational knowledge level, there children liked to have exercise practice that was statistically significant. Conclusion: The result might be helpful for developing awareness among adolescents as well as parents regarding unhealthy life style behavior of adolescents to reduce the risk of unusual health outcome. Bang Med J (Khulna) 2019; 52 : 16-20