Present Scenario of Health Status of University Students at Arrah (Bhojpur), Bihar

Abstract

A cross sectional study was made to know health status of students and research scholars of age group of 20–29 years of Department of different disciplines of Veer Kunwar Singh University, Arrah–802 301 from July 2011 to May 2013. Out of 2428 participants, 1527 (62.89%) participants possessing normal health status followed by 495 (20.39%) of overweight, 235 (9.68%) of underweight and 171 (7.04%) of obese category. The respective proportion of female participants of normal, overweight, underweight and obese category in relation to age ranges from 3.14 to 14.91%, 8.89 to 34.87%, 7.76 to 50.49% and 9.33 to 28.01%. The statistical analysis indicates that the proportion of normal health status decreases significantly (r=-0.637, p<0.05). Conversely, an insignificant increase was calculated (r=0.159; p>0.05) between overweight and age. As far as number of male participants is concerned, their respective proportion of health categories varies from 43.13 to 71.06%, 14.21 to 40.00%, 3.03 to 32.88% and 3.61 to 32.84%. Statistically, the proportion of normal health category increases insignificantly (r=0.310; p>0.05) but an insignificant decrease (r=-0.277, p>0.05) was calculated between overweight category and age.