Health And Lifestyle Habits

Health and Lifestyle Habits of MRU Students

The research study was based on the health and lifestyle habits of Mount Royal University students guided towards the anticipated goal of determining what the average health and lifestyle habits are among the students, and how they feel these habits contribute to their skills and experience of being a student of Mount Royal University. The general research question, what are the health and lifestyle habits of Mount Royal University Students, guided a 10-question survey, where three main factors were analyzed. The 3 factors included nutrition, sleep, and exercise, factors that contribute to the overall analysis of health and lifestyle habits that are important for student success. The study included

The variable of interest being overall reported health and wellness and the dependent variable was self-reported experience and skill in university. In this instance, health and wellness refers to an individual's attitudes and behaviours surrounding sleeping habits, nutrition and exercise. Researchers compiled questions for the survey that fell into 3 different categories; nutrition, sleep and exercise. The 10th question was an open-ended question that would later be broken into categories. Questions 1 through 9 were selected with the intention of understanding the participant’s overall health and wellness and to see if those answers had any correlation with one another and if they had any correlation with the students self perceived skill and experience in university. Researchers in groups of 3 all surveyed 5 individuals resulting in a total of 35 participants. For the first 9 questions researchers asked participants the questions and participants rated how much they agreed or disagreed based on a Likert scale rating system, 1 being strongly disagree, 3 being neutral and 5 being strongly agree. Participants responses were then recorded by researchers. Researchers would then ask the 10th question and record the participant’s

The results also reflect that if students were happy with their eating habits they ate fast food or junk food at minimal levels; as well as if they minimized their intake of fast/junk food, they also exercised at least 2 ½ hours per week and felt they spent enough time doing so. Another result found indicates that if daily exercise was important to them, that they would exercise at least 2 ½ hours per week, felt they spent enough time exercising, and had a regular sleep schedule. The final results show that if students exercised at least 2 ½ hours per week, they felt they spent enough time doing so as well as if they get 8 hours of sleep per night, they also believed they had a regular sleep schedule. The data supports our hypothesis of the average health and lifestyle habits of Mount Royal students because it reflects that with an average skill level between medium to high, students are more likely to correlate their habits in both thought and action. Over all, the results of this study show that sleep, nutrition, exercise, and experience/skill all play a crucial role in the overall outlook of a healthy