Life-style and morbidity of medical students

Ensuring the health of teaching youth is considered as one of the key social tasks for the whole society. Modern students are specialists, on whose future decisions the development of our country will largely depend. However, the educational process in higher education institutions often causes an overload of students, which leads to an increase in psycho-emotional tension, exhaustion of adaptive resources of the nervous, endocrine and immune systems, as well as an increased risk of developing diseases. This article presents data reflecting the state of health of students of the Institute of Medicine, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. Purpose of the study was to study the lifestyle and morbidity of students of the Institute of Medicine, M. K. Ammosov NEFU. Materials and methods: 1. Analytical – literature review. 2. Sociological (cross-sectional study). A retrospective study of the annual preventive medical examination log, analysis of the dispensary registration log for 2019–2022 was conducted. 3. Processing of questionnaire data and statistical analysis were carried out using Microsoft Office Excel. Results: In order to analyze the impact of the educational process on the health of university students, a sociological study was conducted at the Institute of Medicine, M. K. Ammosov NEFU. 40 students participated in the survey. Additionally, data on morbidity were obtained based on the results of annual preventive medical examinations of students at the NEFU clinic, which was carried out through the analysis of a medical journal. The examination was attended by 198 students of various courses of the Department of Dentistry and Nursing. In the course of the research, it was found that the morbidity rate of students of the Institute of Medicine is at an unsatisfactory level, which, in turn, is not unexpected. In the new conditions of social university education, yesterday’s schoolchildren are faced with a complex socio-psychophysiological process that causes tension in the compensatory and adaptive systems of the students’ body. This condition is characterized by mental and psycho-emotional stress that accompanies violations in work, rest and nutrition regimes. Students of the Institute of Medicine are mainly susceptible to diseases such as iron deficiency anemia, diseases of the digestive system (in particular, chronic gastritis, which accounts for 59 % of cases of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract), diseases of the cardiovascular system (where essential hypertension is the most common, accounting for 55 %), the endocrine system (53 obesity accounts for % of cases), respiratory diseases (in particular, chronic tonsillitis – 38 %, bronchial asthma – 24 %) and eye diseases (refractive and accommodation disorders). Findings: The health of medical students during their studies shows a tendency to deteriorate. The key factors contributing to a negative impact on health include significant intellectual stress, non-compliance with the daily routine and diet, insufficient physical activity, as well as the presence of bad habits. These circumstances confirm the need to optimize the work of higher education institutions in the field of health, as well as to coordinate the efforts of all participants in the educational process aimed at attracting students to a healthy lifestyle.

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