Assalamualaikum...
Harus diingat: THIS IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. No serious research was done and it involves only small sample of the population.
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Nature of research:
Caffeine is increasingly consumed by student when prior to deadline
of assignments and examination period. Caffeine consumed usually because of its
benefits, but has to remember that caffeine also has its side-effects and
withdrawal symptoms. This study investigated IIUM Human Sciences students’
consumption of caffeine and their knowledge of caffeine’s benefits, side
effects and withdrawal symptoms. Participants were selected using simple random
sampling method (n=10). A set of questionnaire were given to the participants.
The data was gathered and the average score for the test were identified and
compared. The result indicates that majority of students consumed caffeine-containing
product. However, the total score of caffeine-knowledge test was just 9.6 over
24. This can clearly shows us that students have very minimum knowledge of
caffeine. This happened probably because the withdrawal symptoms and
side-effects of caffeine were commonly experienced than its benefits, since
many of the benefits are associated with the long-term consumed of caffeine.
Therefore, recommendations should be made to the students’ health and
counseling service on campus or any club or society to implement actions, such
as displaying posters in strategic locations or distribution of information
brochures, in an attempt to improve students’ knowledge of caffeine.
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So the findings?
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average score for the caffeine knowledge test was 9.6 out of 24 for the total
group of participants. From the results obtained, participants had the most
knowledge on the withdrawal of the caffeine (average score of 4.8 out of 8),
less knowledge on the side effects (average score of 3.1 out of 8), and least
knowledge on is benefits (average score of 1.7 out of 8). These findings
harmonized with previous study by Lee et.
al. (2009). According to them, this situation was happened probably because
the withdrawal symptoms and side-effects of caffeine were commonly experienced
than its benefits, since many of the benefits are associated with the long-term
consumed of caffeine. With regard to common myths concerning caffeine, many
students believed caffeine as a substitute for sleep (40%), causes of acne
(30%) and causes hot flushes (20%).
The results of the caffeine
awareness test could be influenced by the fact that all the participants were
caffeine consumers. They could probably have experienced the side-effects
personally and therefore knew more about caffeine than non-consumers.
In addition, the
results obtained in this study clearly showed that students have consumed
caffeine while have less knowledge in its side-effects, benefits and withdrawal
symptoms. The majority of participants were using caffeine without sufficient
knowledge of its side-effects, benefits and withdrawal symptoms. Hence, recommendations
should be made to the students’ health and counseling service on campus or any
club or society to implement actions, such as displaying posters in strategic
locations or distribution of information brochures, in an attempt to improve students’
knowledge of caffeine so that students consume caffeine-containing product with
aware of its side-effects. This is very important to help them avoid
over-consumption of caffeine since it could results negative consequences on
their health. By following the beautiful teaching of Islam, people have to take
care of their diet that must also be balanced, in order to maintain the balance
that God has established in all things, this is addressed in the Quran when God
says:
“And He enforced the balance. That you exceed not the bounds; but
observe the balance strictly; and fall not short thereof.”
(Ar- Rahman 55:7-9)
Last but not least, future research can be done to further the study by looking at students’ attitude on over-consumption of caffeine, whether they are aware of its negative effects on health or they are not really care about their health even though the negative effects have been exposed to them. This recommendation study would be interesting as we can investigate students’ awareness regarding their own health and whether the youth nowadays eager to practice healthy lifestyle or vice versa.
In short, based on previous study by Lee et. al. (2009):
The facts of caffeine benefits, side-effects & withdrawal symptoms are:
So...till we not take it without the awareness of over-consumption's side-effects, Drink coffee is Ohsem !
Akhir kalam, may this post has benefits you. Wallahua'lam. Peace.
