Unhealthy lifestyle factors among wellness students at UMK City Campus

Abstract

Being overweight has serious adverse effects on health, linked to hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, endometrium, and gallbladder. Being overweight accounts for 5% of all deaths worldwide. Being overweight can also lead to serious physical behaviour, social, psychological, and economic consequences. The main objective of this research is to examine the relationship between unhealthy lifestyle factors among students at University of Malaysia Kelantan. There are three research objectives. To examine the relationship between hereditary disease and unhealthy lifestyles. Next is to examine the relationship between psychology and unhealthy lifestyles and the last one to examine the relationship between peer influence and unhealthy lifestyles. The conceptual framework contains three independent variables: hereditary disease, psychology, and peer influence. Moreover, one dependent variable is an unhealthy lifestyle. According to the findings of the literature analysis, the researcher has created the frame shown below related to the characteristics of unhealthy lifestyles among UMK students.