Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year. However, most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioral risk factors. The objective of this study was to identify cardiovascular health risk behaviors among college students of Pokhara. Method: Descriptive, cross sectional, web based study was conducted among 390 college students of Pokhara from 10 June to 30 July, 2021. Online self-administered structured questionnaire was used for data collection using purposive and snowball sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Chi square). Result: In this study, smoking, tobacco use and alcohol consumption were present among 33(8.5%), 13(3.3%) and 45(11.5%) respondents respectively. Further consumption of junk food was found among 349(89.5%) followed by screen time of more than two hours among 300(76.9%) respondents. A statistically significant association was found in age (p=0.17) and gender (p<0.001) with smoking. Similarly, statistically significant association was found in gender (p<0.001) with tobacco use and in age (p=0.028), gender (p<0.001), education (p=0.026) and family type (p=0.009) with alcohol consumption. Conclusion: Cardiovascular health risk behaviors such as smoking, tobacco use and alcohol intake was found more among male students. Further consumption of junk food along with screen time of more than two hours was found among most of the college students.
Introduction: Mental health problem is the big issues during Covid 19 pandemic so this study aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health among general population of Gandaki province Methods: An Analytical cross sectional study was conducted from Nov/Dec 2021among 168 general population above 18 years of age.Nepali version of self reporting DASS 21 scale was used for data collection. Data was analyzed using SPSS 19.0 version. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics chisquare & bivariate logistic regression was used for data analysis Results: Among the participants 29.8% had depression, 26.8% had anxiety and 16.1% had stress in varying severity from mild to extremely severe forms. There was signification association between depression and religion, marital status and educational status and there was association between anxiety and stress with marital status and occupation but there is no significant with other demographic variables. Bivariant regression models revealed unmarried respondents were 2.6 times more likely to have depressive symptoms, below Graduation educational status were 3 times more likely to have depressive symptoms. Unmarried respondents were 2.4 times more likely to have anxiety, in the same way unmarried respondents were 5 times more likely to have stress at 95 % CI i.e. pvalve <0.05. Conclusions: More than one fourth respondents was having depressive symptoms, anxious and near to one fifth was stressed so there should be increasing public awareness of mental health and coping strategies is essential to promote mental health to the general population of Gandaki province. Keywords: COVID-19; pandemic; mental health; general population.
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