Abstract
Health is greatly influenced by diet and physical exercise. For students, good health is one of the
contributing factors towards classroom performance including academic achievement. The present study
was designed to explore the practices of health care among university students and its relationship with
their classroom performance. A sample of 1000 students from 13 departments of the University of
Sargodha was selected through stratified sampling technique and 726 respondents returned the
questionnaire. A questionnaire was developed to inquire the diet pattern, physical exercise and classroom
performance of students. The questionnaire was validated and revised through expert opinion including
nutritionists. The research instrument was pilot tested as well and reliability was 0.81. Findings showed
that majority of the university students were consuming unhealthy food in the form of junk food.
Interestingly students from departments of medical and food sciences scored higher on a measure of junk
food scale. It was also found that the students with “more health caring” were good in classroom
performance. It was concluded that a major number of students had unhealthy patterns of diet and lacked
physical activities. It is recommended to include not only information about health care in daily teaching
as well as informal coaching by university teachers.
Hina Khalid, Shaista Khalid, Zubair Ahmad Shah. (2018) Relationship between University Students’ Health Care Practices and Their Classroom Performance, Journal of Research and Reflections in Education, Volume 12, Issue 1.
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