RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Research title

The effects of IBD students lifestyle on study

Research background and rationale

In recent years, students are gradually adapting to the modern unconventional lifestyle.
Typically, students prefer to study at night and sleep throughout the day, it is believed that
spending time to learn during night time can help students acquire knowledge more efficiently.
In addition, the diet also does not seem to follow scientific principles, people tend to use meals
depending on their interest and not by their specific schedules. Therefore, this current modern
and diverse lifestyle also affects the acquisition of knowledge at school, especially IBD students.

In the past, Vietnam was not a developing country thus young people suffered to be unable to
experience such modern lives leading to a lifestyle much more challenging and backward,
obsolete lifestyle was also a major problem causing people’s educational experiences to be
extremely difficult. Today’s students are more career-orientated and under pressure to take on
extracurricular activities, more responsibilities and work experience to compete in the graduate
jobs market in terms of developing nation. The world is constantly becoming modern and the
lives of students are also regularly changing in both positive and negative direction depending on
each person's lifestyle. We intend to do an investigation into how IBD student’s study results has
changed due to their daily routines. To clarify the point, this research will help to learn more
about this topic in different perspectives.

Research objective

- Analyse the changes of lifestyles in the past and in the present.

- Find out the benefits and drawbacks of different lifestyles.
- Point out how each lifestyles would affect study results.
- Propose solutions to the disadvantages and offer more efficient ways to have good study
results depending on logical lifestyles.

Questions
 - How can lifestyles affect study experiences?
- What are the benefits and drawbacks of -having a proper schedule?
- What are the measures to have a better diet?
- What are the advantages of doing exercises regularly?

Methodology

- Primary data:

IBD students are given a survey of questions about eating habits, types of schedule and they
are supposed to choose answers corresponding with their point of views. In addition, based
on each lifestyle will lead to different study results. Opinions will be gathered, analyzed and
synthesized carefully.

- Secondary data:

Other information will be collected via websites, books and articles that are relevant to
education and life experiences.

Abstract

One of the main areas of growing research interest across the globe has been lifestyle, which
is increasingly recognized as one of the important aspects affecting one's own health.
According to the World Health Organization, health includes all aspects of physical, mental,
and social well-being and does not just refer to the absence of sickness. This study aims to
evaluate the current state of college students' healthy lifestyles especially IBD students, and to
identify both negative or positive lifestyles would specifically affect one’s study results.

The time period is evolving at an increasing rate, and student lifestyles are diversifying at an
increasing rate. However, unfavorable lifestyle choices, such as staying up late, eating poorly,
and skipping workouts, have an impact on students' academic performance. Most pupils
experience academic inefficiency as a result of this issue. Not only might it have negative
consequences on study outcomes, but it could also have a major negative impact on one's
physical and emotional well-being.
 In order to approach to this research more accurately, with a compatibility of the developed
technology, we use different websites as a tool to gather practical information related to
student’s different kind of lifestyles. Following, based on the online websites, we will examine
the information and analyze to compare with IBD students, having more observation about the
problems as well as positive effects would lead to different results.

Literature Review

Unhealthy lifestyle is dependent on a wide range of variables, and each one affects a person's
health and productivity.

Eating habit of college students:

Numerous research have indicated that unhealthful eating habits are common among college
students. Students typically consume fewer daily servings of fruits and vegetables and report
eating a lot of high-fat, high-calorie items (Brevard & Ricketts, 1996; Driskell, Kim, & Goebel,
2005; Racette, Deusinger, Strube, Highstein, & Deusinger, 2005). Only 7.3% of students,
according to a 2004 research cited by the American College Health Association (2006),
consumed five or more servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Students' eating habits
frequently deteriorate as they adjust to college life (Grace, 1997), which may lead to weight
issues, particularly in the first year of college or university (Anderson et al., 2003), and persist
into later years of life (Centers for Disease Control, 1997; Racette et al., 2005).

Researchers House, Su, and Levy-Milne (2006) looked at the advantages college students
thought a healthy diet would provide. Students at a Canadian university who participated in this
study said eating healthily helped them feel well, looked good (in terms of weight, skin,
physique, and other factors), and prevented sickness. Although this study's findings were based
on a focus group with 15 students (of which nine were preparing to become dieticians), there
are nonetheless parallels to research done among regular folks (Steptoe, Pollard, & Wardle,
1995). According to Horacek and Betts (1998), students' eating habits were impacted by flavor,
availability of time, convenience, and cost, in that order. According to the focus group results,
these appear to serve as greater obstacles to healthy eating (House et al., 2006).

Effects of lack of sleep to students and their study results:

 According to Michael Patrao (2022): “Sleep deprivation can cause several adverse effects on
college students. Decreased attention span, reduction in learning capacity, fluctuation in
emotions, memory consolidation and cognitive tasks such as problem-solving and critical
reasoning get affected. In extreme cases, it can lead to a lack of motivation and loss of interest
in academics.” He also stated that sleep deprivation results in grumpiness and irritability, which
affects behavior at home and at school. Sleep-deprived students miss the most engaging,
fascinating lectures, and this shows in their final exam papers and low grades.

On the study which was conducted by Rostam Jalali, Habibollah Khazaei, Behnam Khaledi

Paveh, Zinab Hayrani and Lida Menati (2020), there are additional research that have found an
inverse link between sleep disruption and academic success, in contrast to such studies that
stress absence of association or low association. Academic performance and the quantity of
nocturnal sleep as well as daytime tiredness were shown to be correlated in a research of 491
first-, second-, and third-year medical students. In a related study, poor nighttime sleep, staying
up late, and daytime tiredness all had a detrimental impact on medical students' academic
performance. Notably, sleep problems frequently have a detrimental effect on academic
performance, creating a vicious cycle. Together, the research indicate that the majority of
students in studies have reported getting poor-quality sleep. As a result, it is prudent to proceed
cautiously when drawing conclusions about the connection between frequent sleep disruption
and academic performance. The explanation is that a variety of factors, such as family income,
evolution, supplement and vitamin use, family size, dependence on social media, social
network addiction, and societal concerns, might have an impact on academic achievement.
These uncontrollable external influences make it imperative to proceed cautiously and with
longitudinal research when examining if there is a connection between academic achievement
and sleep quality.

The impact of exercises to study experiences:

An educational website, Brainscape, as their statement is “Exercise boosts long-term

memory”, wrote that in a 2014 research, Weinberg and his colleagues gave two groups of
participants a collection of images without instructing them to recall them. The first group then
engaged in resistance training, while the second group did not. What they discovered showed
 that brief bouts of resistance training can enhance long-term memory, with the people who
exercised identifying 10% more photographs, two days later, than those who didn't.

Brainscape also proved that exercises can improve our brain, according to the author, our
brain can grow and change, our neurons' capacity to modify their physical properties and create
new connections in response to behavioral changes is referred to as "synaptic plasticity" in
scientific jargon. Aerobic exercise improves blood flow to the brain, which can result in an
increase in brain size as well as enhanced neuronal lifespan and adaptability, without
neuroplasticity, learning new information, languages, or skills would be next to impossible.
This statement is specifically true leading to an another personal opinion that improving our
brain also means developing study skills.

A website called Exercise Right posted in Exercise Right at Work (09 May 2022) stated that
exercise can benefit mental health as well as attention and focus. Those who are young are
more at danger. Around 75% of mental health issues start before age 25. It's probable that
students struggle with your their mental health while attending college.

Through both direct and indirect effects, exercise improves memory and cognitive
performance. Exercise has health benefits because it lowers insulin resistance, reduces
inflammation, and triggers the release of growth factors, which are chemicals that have an
impact on the health of brain cells, the development of new blood vessels in the brain, and even
the quantity and survival of new brain cells.

Exercise indirectly enhances mood and sleep quality while lowering stress and anxiety.
Cognitive impairment is commonly brought on by or contributed to by issues in these areas.

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Survey Questionnaire

Part 1: The situation of different lifestyles leading to study experiences among IBD
students:

1. How do you assess your own health?