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Usage of Mobile Applications at Night and its Association with Sleep Pattern and Academic Performance of the Medical Students of UniKL-RCMP, Ipoh, Malaysia ATM Emdadul Haque
Journal of Global Pharma Technology Volume 09 Issue 09
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Background: Smartphone has become a mainstream medium, in the healthcare setting because of quick access to medical information, enhance students’ learning in a clinical environment and increases knowledge score. Therefore, this research was performed to determine if there was an association of the mobile applications usage at night on sleep pattern and academic performance of the medical students of UniKL RCMP. Aim: This study was done to determine the relationship between socio-demographic factors with 3 elements, which are mobile application usage, sleep quality and quantity and academic performance. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved Year-2 till Year-5 medical students of UniKL RCMP. The sample size was calculated to be 214 students with 95% confident level, by using Opine application. The study was conducted from December 2016 to January 2017. The quota sampling method was used. A set of questionnaires were developed and computed as the variables of this study. Statistical analysis was done in SPSS 21 using appropriate statistical test, p<0.05 was considered as significant. Results:  Out of 300 only 215 questionnaires were returned.  100% of the current study respondents use a smartphone. There was a correlation between average total time smartphone apps used before sleep at night and feeling tired after waking up in the morning. This study result showed that usage of smartphone apps during class could lead to losing of attention. Conclusions: There were a correlation between mobile apps usage at night on sleep pattern. The heavier the usage of smartphone apps, the more sleep quantity and quality goes down. Though, students’ academic performance was not significantly associated with the use of mobile apps. 
Perception on the Use of Plastinated Specimen in Anatomy Learning Among Preclinical Medical Students of UNIKL RCMP, Malaysia ATM Emdadul Haque
Journal of Global Pharma Technology Volume 09 Issue 09
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The scarcity of cadaver donation nowadays, consequently, the availability of fresh specimens will be drastically diminished. Plastinated specimens have been introduced as a supplement but are still not widely used in Malaysia.  This study aims to assess the knowledge on plastinated specimens and to determine the perception of preclinical medical students of UniKL RCMP about the use of plastinated specimen in studying anatomy.  A cross-sectional study was done on 143 preclinical medical students of UniKL RCMP using a simple random sampling method. A structured, self-administered questionnaire was used to collect socio-demographic data and information regarding perception on the use of plastinated specimen.  No significant association was found between gender and level of perception (p=0.458) although male students had a slightly better perception level than female students.  Regarding the relationship between gender and perception score, the mean of perception score was found to be higher in male than in female students but the mean difference was found to be statistically not significant (p=0.427).  Study on the association between year of study and the level of perception showed that the number of Year-II students with good perception was higher than that of Year-I students (p=0.006). On testing the relationship between year of study and perception score, the mean of perception score of Year-II students was found to be higher than Year-I students with the mean difference of 2.068 (p=0.002). Since the perception score toward the use of plastinated specimen for learning of anatomy was only an average among the preclinical MBBS students of UniKL RCMP and the Year-II students were having a better perception than the Year-I students, more frequent and longer exposure to the usage of plastinated specimens in learning anatomy should be encouraged. The increasing difficulty of obtaining donated cadavers experienced in many parts of the world propagated the use of plastinated specimens as a supplementary educational tool will open a new era in the teaching and learning of anatomy.KEYWORDS: Perception, Anatomy Learning, Preclinical Medical Students, UNIKL RCMP, Malaysia.
Relationship between BMI with the Anthropometric Measurements and the Eating Habits of the Preclinical Medical Students of Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine Perak (UniKL RCMP), Malaysia ATM Emdadul Haque
Journal of Global Pharma Technology Volume 09 Issue 12
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Background: In recent decades’ changes in Malaysians’ dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles due to the rapid acceleration of urbanization and industrialization leads to an increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases. BMI is used to calculate weight ranges from underweight to obese while an anthropometric measurement is a measurement for purposes of assessing growth and body fat distribution. Methods: This cross-sectional study was aimed at correlating BMI with the Anthropometric Measurements (AM) and the eating habit to see the trend of obesity and overweight. The study was done on the pre-clinical first and second-year medical students of UniKL RCMP. The study adopted a simple random sampling method on 172 students. A questionnaire was used, and BMI and AM were taken. Results: Students’ BMI revealed 18% underweight, 58.1% normal, 16.9% overweight and 7% obese. Although 38% students thought their eating habit was healthy, only 60% of students included all classes of the food pyramid in their daily meals and 95% did not even count their food calories.  Moreover, 56% of students tend to eat more than usual when they became depressed. AM showed positive correlations between height and upper-arm-length; upper-arm-length and arm-circumference; arm-circumference and triceps-skinfold; triceps-skinfold and waist-circumference; triceps-skinfold and hip-circumference; and BMI and triceps skinfold.  Conclusions: As various findings on eating habits had been discovered both supporting and contradictory, a more comprehensive study, if possible on all medical students would be helpful in finding out the actual prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents and providing more informative health education.Keywords: BMI, AM, Eating Habits, Medical Students, UniKL RCMP, Malaysia.
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