Association between eating breakfast and fatigued in medical students, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University
Keywords:
breakfast skipping, medical student, fatigue, breakfast habitAbstract
Breakfast is often thought to be the most important meal, being an energy source for any activities during the day and it is supports ability of learning and long memory in the classroom. Skipping breakfast meal is hypothesized bad for health and possibly contributing to fatigue. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of people who skip breakfast among medical students, Chiang Mai University, and its effect on their fatigue during the day. A descriptive cross-sectional study of breakfast eating habits among medical students was distributed to third year (pre-clinical) medical students and fourth and fifth year (clinical) medical students studying family medicine in Family Medicine Department at Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. The questionnaires to be self-administered. A total 294 medical students were included in this study, of these 192 were pre-clinical student (3rd year), 52 (4thyear) and 50 clinical students (5th year) respectively, among them the proportion between male and female was 1.08: 1. Those students breakfast-skipping were 32.7% overall. The prevalence of people who skip breakfast in the pre-clinical students and clinical students was 28.12% and 71.88% respectively. Generally, breakfast-skipping was not significantly related to fatigue during clinical sessions (X2 = 0.092, p>5). This study suggest that factors that might be influential to fatigue in this study could be for other reasons.
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