Health Concerning Lifestyle and Risky Behaviours in University Going Female Students Residing in the Hostels of Lahore

Health behaviors are actions that have an impact on one's health or illness risk. There are two types of hazardous behaviors: those that are harmful to one's health and those that are beneficial to one's health. Unhealthy habits tend to cluster in young people, according to a growing body of data. Health-related behavior patterns fluctuate greatly between nations and even within a single country's regions. Many factors like food safety, cultural, socio-economic factors, age, sex, nutrition, behavior, physical activity and diseases were assessed among female students with the age of 19 to 25 years. Objective: To assess the health concerning practices among university going Hostel residing female students in Lahore. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study among the female students residing in hostels of The University of Lahore, Lahore with the duration of 04 months. The non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to choose 272 university students in this cross-sectional study. Pre-tested questionnaire was used to assess the health-related lifestyle and behaviors of university going female students residing in Hostels and data were analyzed with SPSS version 21.0. Results: 76.4% of female students were belonged from middle class, 61.7% students experienced normal living experience in hostels, while 57.7% students found hostels environment restricted, 43.0% female students found hotels mess food tasteless and 68.8% preferred homemade food. 22.8% of students smoked on a regular basis, while 81 percent of the students said they engaged in frequent physical activity and exercise. The majority of female students had unhealthy eating habits, with a high intake of fast food and salt. Conclusion: Knowledge, practices, and attitudes, as well as legal constraints, social environment, and economic position, may all influence good and bad health behaviors. Lower health literacy, on the other hand, leads to more unhealthy habits.


INTRODUCTION
Modern world, way of living, stress, unhealthy eating habits, fasting of all the things in life and physically inactive are those negative aspects that cause chronic diseases in our new generation. Several factors affect the nutritional status of girls in between the age of 19 to 25 years old [1]. The other modifiable factors include age, gender, occupation, marital status etc [2]. According to WHO Health is the condition of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence disease or infirmity. It is reality that our physical and social wellbeing must be a goal for which we all work [3,4]. Moving from adolescence to adulthood is an important time for individuals as it is the time of development of health patterns that effect long term health and risk of chronic diseases development [5]. University students are more affected by this transition period. Students specially living away from their homes have much behavioural changes which leads to poor health habits and thus affecting lives by developing chronic disease risk [6]. So, the society's health is based on how the individuals are living and what's their life patterns. Follow a physically active lifestyle and hence contributing to better community [7,8].
Hostelites do face many Stress issues i.e., depression phobias etc, which are problematic for them both physically and mentally causing health issues and hindrance in their studies too [9]. The first reason is the lack of proper foods, poor hostel meals, management etc and the second most major reason is the physical inactivity which is the major contributing factor towards these health problems. All over the world many students start living in hostels for the sake of higher education from the institutions which are away from their hometown [10]. Those who live in hotels are at that point where they do everything by their own like as their meal and diet also dependent on their own choice and selection of food [11]. Most of the time they bought food from different food cafes nearby their hostels and this kind of food is not good for their health. There are multiple issues which are responsible for bad health effects on the hostel students, some financial problems, adjustment issues because of new place new people, private issues and stress or depression because away from family, changes in food quality, eating habits and sleeping habit and many other different problems [12]. Stress and anxiety is very common among hostelized students [13]. The stress is due to many reasons like study burdens, financial issues, away from parents, and also due to bad companies. Hostel students adopt some bad habits due to stress and also due to bad companies [14]. These habits include smoking and drug addiction which is very injurious to our health and cause many health-related problems like cancer. Both are very common in the students of age from 12 to 19 years of age most common in hostel residential. It occurs due to their background also due to social environment and due to the bad company siting [15]. A study was conducted by Shree V et al, 2018 to know the prevalence of eating junk food among medical students of IGIMS, India. There were 120 students which were all given some questions to answer. After collection of results, this was concluded that majority of the students (58) were consuming junk food for dinner [16], many were taking junk items in evening and almost 26 of them were taking it during lunch, consumption of soft drinks was also high (68) among them. Approximately 91 students consumed such food for more than twice a week. There were two main reasons seen that why they eat junk food more. First reason was that students like gathering in which only junk food is eaten and the second reason was that they like to eat distinct flavors [17].

METHODS
It is a cross-sectional study conducted among the female students residing at the hostel of The University of Lahore, Lahore with the duration of 04 months. The non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to choose 272 university students in this cross-sectional study. The goal of this study was to evaluate the female health attitudes, habits, and mental and physical well-being, pre-tested questionnaire was used to assess the health-related lifestyle and behaviors of university going Hostelite girls and data were analyzed with SPSS version 21.0.

RESULTS
Among 272 female students about 76.4% were belonged from middle class, 61.7% girls experienced normal living experience and 57.7% found hostels environment restricted (Table 1). According to table 2 about 43.0% female students found hotels mess food tasteless, 68.8% preferred homemade food and 41.2% students considered health over junk food due to its quality. Out 272 girls 99(36.4%) were moderately active, 87(32.0%) were spending 15 mins daily on walking, 160(58.8%) were using stairs many times a day. Out of 272 girls, 132(48.5%) were not participating in sports or any games as described in table 3. Out of 272 girls,40.8% were saying both a and d,26.8% were saying obesity,20.6% were saying gastro intestinal diseases, and 11.8% were saying heart diseases ( Figure 1). Out of 272 girls 168(61.8%) were not seen smoking, whereas 115(42.3%) did complain to warden when they saw someone smoking and 194(71.3%) don't use cigarette as described in table 4.Out of 272 female students 156(57.4%) were having it sometimes, 82(30.1%) preferred sleeping when they are stressed and 112(41.5%) were eat nothing when they get stressed as described in table 5.  Table 3: Frequency distribution of girls physically active, daily walk timing, workout/walk timing in a week   Table 5: Frequency distribution of stress condition and its effects

DISCUSSION
Hostel is basically the place where the students live and have develop different habits like different eating patterns, physical activity, and they also know how to live away from their home independently [18]. Current study was also on hostel girl's lifestyle but we mainly focus on the nutritional status of university going hostel girls to know how they manage their eating time, physical activity, with their hectic study routine. In the present study out of 272 female students, 32 students had good living experience in hostel [19]. Students had bad, 168 students had normal and only 8 students had very bad experience of