INVESTIGATING THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE DAILY ROUTINE OF HOSTELLITE AND DAY-SCHOLAR STUDENTS AT QAU

Abstract

The present study tends to work to investigate the socio-medical effects of sub/optimal eating patterns, un/healthy sleeping habits, and in/adequate participation in physical activities. Previous studies have also examined the changing effects of diversification in sleeping habits, eating patterns, and physical activities between day scholars and hostelities. The sleeping patterns, eating habits, and participation in physical activities and exercises were considered as the major, major yardsticks to determine the commonalities and differences between the daily routines hostelities and day scholar students. Utilizing a quantitative research method, proportional sampling techniques was used to select a sample of 396 respondents with 132 males and 264 females among 156 Hostellites and 240 day-scholar students from the total population of 9907. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among hostellite and day-scholar students to investigate the variables' relationship. As the findings indicate, 45.5% of hostellite students usually sleep late at night, and 51.3% of hostellites students suffer from dizziness and headache. In addition, 11.8% of the hostelites students have their breakfast at noon time, and only 24.6% of day scholar students have an optimal breakfast routine. An alarming 67.6% of day scholars suffer from obesity due to lesser participation in physical activities and binge eating food. Both categories of students' physical and mental health were observed as non-satisfactory due to lesser participation in physical activities. In short, hostellites were found as more affected by the new environment of hostels.