Health Status and Academic Progress Among Day Scholars Vs Hostelites in Allied Health Sciences Students

Abstract

Students are the most important aspect of future in any nation, which depends incredibly on its health and academic quality. Students are either day scholar or hostilities. Students from faraway places for study purposes comes and live in a hostel in which they live in a supervised and secure environment. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the nutritional status and academic performance of day scholars in comparison with hostilities of allied health science students of Lahore. Methods: This was a cross sectional comparative analytic study in which sample of 171 students was included out of which 77 were male and 94 were female. 93 hostel students and 78 where day scholars were selected in this study. Data were collected by using comparative survey design questionnaire which consist of 2 sections of demographic data involving both day scholars and hostel student’s data related to nutritional health and over all academic performance. After collecting data, it was analyzed by using SPSS version 22.0. Results: After analyzation of data it was found that 36.5% of hostilities have good physical health, 63.5% hostilities have poor physical health, 53.9% day-scholars have good physical health and 46.1% day-scholars have poor physical health. And 65.5% hostilities have good academic performance, 34.5% hostilities have poor academic performance, 56.4%-day scholars have good academic performance and 43.5% day-scholars have poor academic performance. Conclusion: On the basis of results, it was concluded that health status of day scholars was better than hostilities and the academic performance of hostel students was slightly better as compared to day scholars.