Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: An Investigation of Students

Abstract

Students' lifestyle is more likely to follow emerging trends in the present era of globalization such as consuming junk food, spending time social media, playing online games until midnight. This study was therefore aimed to describe a dataset of students' healthy life style acquired with GPAQ, BMI, PSQI and Coping Stress. The method was descriptive qualitative with cross-sectional design. Samples were all undergraduate students aged 18 years old and above of STKIP Muhammadiyah Muara Bungo in academic year of 2015-2017. The result revealed that (1) in physical activity, 12% of the students had heavy activity, 60% of them had moderate activity, and 28% of them had light activity, (2) in nutritional status, 4% of students was very thin, 12% was thin, 75% was normal, 9% was obese, and 0% was obesity, (3) in resting patterns, 28% of students had good sleep quality, 72% had poor sleep quality, and (4) in stress control, 6% of students had very high stress, 18% had high stress, 46% had medium stress, 26% had low stress, and 4% had very low stress. In short, STKIP students mostly have moderate activities. Likewise, they have most normal nutritional status, yet they have a poor rest pattern. In addition, they have medium stress control criteria.