Background: With the development of risk factors in modernizing the education system in Vietnam, stress among students is gradually increasing. Especially, among medical students there has been a high demonstration of stress. The main aim of this study was to identify associated factors of stress among first year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Public Health of Hue UMP. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a total sample of 209 first year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Public Health, Hue UMP. Data collection was undertaken using self-admistrative structured-questionnaire, which included five main parts: demographic characteristics, personal relationships; factors related to hobbies and studies; factors related to the study environment; and stress situation of students. Stress situation was measured using the perceived stress scale (PSS-14 items). The cut off point of 30 and above was used to identify the situation of high stress among the students. Chi-square test with 95% CI and mutiple logistic regression were implemented to examine factors related to high stress situation. Results: The percentage of high stress among students was 24.9%. The proportion of high stress of female students was 2 times higher than male students (OR= 2.3; 95%CI: 1.10 – 4.83). Students who lived in other provinces had a 2.8 times higher prevalence of high stress compared to those from Thua Thien province (OR=2.83; 95%CI: 1.19 – 6.73). Related factors of high stress status included: (1) personal relationships (having close friends or not, difficulty in relationships with friends, difficulty in social activities) and (2) factors related to study environement (academic stress; aspiration of retaking the enrollment examination of entering university, difficulty in finding reference documents for study, difficulty of approaching new learning methods). Conclusion: High stress situation was common among first year undergraduate. Personal relationship and factors related to study environement were significantly associated with high stress situation among the students. Key words: Stress, Public Health, undergraduate first year student, Hue UMP
Background: Nutritional status is a set of functional, structural and biochemical characteristics that reflect the level of nutritional needs of the body. Both undernutrition and overnutrition affect human health in general and the health of patients in particular. Malnutrition prolongs hospital stay, reduces resistance and increases the risk of complications. Therefore, screening and evaluating the nutrition status of patients is important in the treatment process. Objectives: 1. To screen and assess the nutritional status of inpatients at the Hue University Hospital; 2. To find out some factors related to the patient’s nutritional status. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 700 inpatients at departments of internal medicine and surgery, Hue University Hospital. NRS2002 tool was used for screening nutritional risk, Body Mass Index (BMI) was used for assessing nutritional status and questionnaires was used to understand some of the risk factors. Results: Prevalence of inpatients had nutritional risk was 37.4%, in which 38.1% at internal medicine department and 36.8% at surgery departments. Assessment of nutritional status by using BMI showed that 28.1% of inpatients was undernutrition (24.2% at internal medicine departments, and 32.4% at surgery departments); Some risk factors for undernutrition of inpatients were old age (≥ 60 group was higher than <60 (p <0.001), smoking (smokers were at higher risk than patients used to smoke and nonsmokers (p<0.001); living place (patients who live in rural areas had a 1.6 times higher risk of undernutrition than those living in urban areas (p<0.001). Conclusions: Prevalence of inpatients with nutritional risk in internal medicine and surgery was quite high. All inpatients should be screened for nutritional status for better treatment.
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