Evaluating the profile of health and lifestyle effect among undergraduate students in the university campus

Nowadays, students in university have a different lifestyle due to tight academic timetables, rules and regulations and extracurricular activities. Therefore, many of them develop a series of unhealthy trends, such insufficient nutrition, lack of rests and physical activities. Students with an unhealthy lifestyle commonly have less nutrients and physical activity are identified be more depressed and weaker in mind and physique. Past studies show that unhealthy students are more likely to deal with difficulty in learning and thus impacted the achievement, attendance and academic performance. In the long-run, unhealthy lifestyle inherits from university will affect the student’s quality of life. Hence, this study examines the wellness factors among undergraduate students in a northern state of Malaysia. A total of 1436 undergraduate students from three colleges; COB, COLGIS and CAS were randomly selected to answer the survey questionnaire via online form. The data collected was analyzed by SPSS software. Our findings show the variables like the unhealthy lifestyle, food consumption and lack of physical exercise have a significant relationship to the students’ health problem including the academic results. Therefore, the university’s top management perhaps need to inspire their students to improve health condition and well-being in order to pursue better performance in academic.