The students do have awareness on the effects of breakfast habits to the health aspect and daily activities. Student at all ages have many excuses for skipping breakfast. Many other teens are busy until late into the night with homework, extracurricular activities, and part-time jobs. They go to bed late, then get up and rush off to school, too frantic to eat.

 The students will lack of important nutrient in the body and affect the focus during learning in the class. Students will be susceptible to illnesses such as fever, flu, gastric and others. In addition, neglection of  breakfast can increase the risk of metabolic syndrome consisting of high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, high blood triglyceride levels, low HDL (low cholesterol) cholesterol levels, and fat in the stomach that will increasing the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Breakfast also provides an important opportunity for supplying the body with essential nutrients. By eating healthy and dense foods with nutrients, protein, complex carbohydrates and fruits and vegetables. It can help supply enough nutrients. Studies also show that those with breakfast are more likely to eat and balance throughout the day.

Purpose: To investigate the perception of UPSI students about  the actual effects of skipping breakfast habit.

Method(s): a)Interview
                     b)Questionnaire
                     c)Video recording

Production timeline: As attached

Intervieews:
1) Student 1, Male, Semester 3
2) Student 2, Female, Semester 3
3) Student 3, Female, Semester 3
4) Student 4, Female, Semester 3
5) Student 5, Female, Semester 1
6) Student 6, Female, Semester 1

Interview questions:

1. Can you introduce yourself?

2. When do you take your breakfast?

3. Have you taken your breakfast this morning?

4. If no, why do you skip your breakfast? / Can you tell us what do you feel when you skip your breakfast.

5. If yes, tell us why you take your breakfast.

6. Do you think breakfast is important?

7. What is your opinion about the importance of taking breakfast?

Questionnaire:

Breakfast Survey for Students

Please respond to the questions below by ticking in the boxes.

1. Gender

(  ) Female              (  ) Male 

2. Did you eat breakfast today ?

(  ) Yes                 (  ) No

3. Where did you have your breakfast today ?

(  ) At home             (  ) In the car        

(  ) On the bus           (  ) At college

4. What did you eat for breakfast ? (Choose ONE).

(  ) Milk (  ) Fish

(  ) Nugget/Sausage (  ) Bread/Sandwich/Roti canai   

(  ) Chocolate (  )Cereal/Oatmeal

(  ) Egg (  )Fruit or Fruit juice

(  ) Nasi Lemak/Nasi Kerabu (  )Other

If other, please state here.

5. Do you usually eat breakfast?

(  ) Yes                (  ) No

6. How many days in a week do you eat breakfast?

(  ) 0                  (  ) 3               (  ) 6                               

(  ) 1                  (  ) 4               (  ) 7

(  ) 2                  (  ) 5

7. If you do not eat breakfast, please tell us why. (Choose ONE).

(  ) I do not have time (  ) I do not like breakfast food

(  ) I do not have money (  ) My friends do not eat breakfast

(  ) I am not hungry (  ) I do not have food to eat for breakfast

(  ) I am trying to watch my weight (  ) Other

If other, please state here.

8. How does eating breakfast help you?(Choose ONE).

(  ) Gives me energy (  ) Helps me to get good grades        

(  ) Wakes me up (  ) Helps me to be in a better mood

(  ) Helps me to pay attention (  ) Helps me to try new foods 

(  ) Helps me to be healthy (  ) It does not helps me

If other, please state here.

9. How do you feel when you do not eat breakfast?(Choose ONE).

(  ) I am hungry (  ) I do not have energy

(  ) I have a headache (  ) I feel grumpy

(  ) I have stomachache (  ) I have trouble paying attention in class

(  ) I am tired (  ) Other

If other, please state here.

10. Do you think breakfast is important?

(  ) Yes                             (  ) No

METHODS:
video recording and interview

PRODUCTION TIMELINE : As attachment

Interviewer

1.       Student 1: sem 5

2.       Student 2 : sem 3

3.       Student 3 :sem 2

4.       Student 4: sem 4

5.       Lecturer : faculti FPTV

6.       Employer : Bos Café Myfrens KUO 

 

QUESTIONS FOR STUDENTS

1.       Do you volunteer  yourself to join the part time job ?

2.       Why do you apply the job, do you have financial problem ?

3.       Did the job distrupt your studies ?

4.       How do you manage your financial ?

5.       Do your parent knows about your part time job ?

6.       What problem that you face in your part time job ?

QUESTIONS FOR EMPLOYER

1.       Why you open job opportunities among the students ?

2.       What skill that students have until you trust them to manage you business ? 

3.       Do you think about their financial prolem caused from poor background family ?

4.       Whether students will do assignment during a work ?

QUESTION FOR LECTURER

1.       In your opinion, how you can see the financial problem affect the student’s behaviour ?

        Students who suffer from sleep deprivation tend to be hyperactive and may have short attention span in the class, as stated by a mounting body of research. In the United States, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention recommends schools to start at 8.30 am or later (“US teens start school too early” - NST, Aug 8) so that students would have an extra hour of sleep per day to boost their academic performance.

            Sleep deprived high school students who fall asleep in class aren’t just risking the rage of their lecturers. Students who faced sleep deprivation are more likely to face  depression up to three times higher than the students who get enough sleep. “Sleep deprivation and depression go hand in hand among teenagers,” says the study’s lead author, Mahmood Siddique, D.O, a sleep medicine specialist at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

 

            The rate of depression among the students was very high. According to a study that presented in San Antonio at SLEEP 2010, thirty percent of the teens which are the students had strong depression symptoms due to lack of sleep. There so many studies or researches that held related to sleep. It show that how important sleep is in our daily life and it is essential for human being even animals.

Purpose :
To observe if lack of sleep will affect student's academic performance.

Method(s) : Interview & Questionnaire, Video recording

Production Timeline : As attached.

Interviewees :
1. Female student, Semester 3.
2. Female student, Semester 3.
3. Male student, Semester 3.
4. Female student, Semester 5.
5. Male student, Semester 3.
6. Male student, Semester 3.

Interview Questions :
1.       Do you always have enough time to sleep at night?

2.       On average, how many hours of sleep do you always had?

3.       What do you always do when you can’t sleep?

4.       If you have any sleep disorder, since when do you suffering from it?

5.       How long have you been suffering from it?

6.       What prevents you from having a beautiful sleep?

7.       In your opinion, does sleeping for a long time can guarantee the student’s quality of sleep? 

8.       Do you think that not having enough sleep hours will affect student’s academic performance?

Smartphone is like a tiny device that has the same function as computer. This is because, smartphone has most of the applications that have in a computer. That’s why smartphone can help students to simplify many works such as download notes, online classes and online quiz. By using smartphone, people can send and receive  phone call, message and email. People also can play videos and music with their smartphones.  But people may not realize that smartphone give people too much comfort until they can’t survive without it. 

According to an article from ‘Sinar Harian’  (2013, September 21 ), it shows that people from Malaysia ranking the third higher mobile phone user in Pacific Asia. This is the prove that Malaysian are addicted to smartphones. As we can see now, kids also have their own smartphones. This is because many parents give it to them so that their children will not bothering them while they do their works. However, this situation will not even solve the problem but will make their children become more obsess to smartphone. The children tend to get easily angry and crying if cannot have the smartphones. This will turn the children to become a pasive and weak person when they grow up. 

From the observation, most of Malaysians love to spend more time using smartphone rather than having a good life style. They are far away from social community which is important for life skills.  Students are not except as well.  Majority students in Malaysia like to use their free time by playing games and chatting using smartphones. As example, we can see many people around us that keep using their phones all the time. By doing this, students will lack in many things such as social skill, have narrow mind and lack in  self confident.  

 

Negative Effects Of Smartphone To Students

1. Accident and Health Problem.

Most of the accidents that happen recently are reported caused by the neglect of the drivers who are using the smartphones while driving. Most of them love to reply messages, pick up calls and take the selfie in the car. However, this stupid action can cause serious accident and put themselves in danger. They are not just putting themselves into danger but also the other road users. 

 

Apart from that, using smartphone too often can cause someone to have health problems. One of the problem is bad eye sight. Evidence shows that the blue light from the phone can cause damage to the back of the eye. From the experiment,  the closer we hold the smartphones to our eyes, the more intense the light exposure, and the higher the risk of 

possible damage. This makes smartphones the worst offenders. Besides, exposure in children could possibly lead to early onset macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness for those over 50, and to the earlier incidence of cataracts. 

 

After that, using smartphones too often can make someone to have hearing problem. You might have hearing problem if you use your headphone or earphone to play the music or playing games with high volume.  If we listen to music that is too loud, we can damage the tiny hairs in the inner ear, which transmit chemical signals through nerves to the brain. 

Students also usually use their smartphones before sleep in the dark. Smartphones also can cause the users to get a sleep problem. If you take phone to bed you may find youself plugged in while you should be winding down. Instead of relaxing your brain, you are feeding it with more thoughts. Most of students like to watch movies and playing games late at the night. This will lead them to sleep late and not having a enough sleep.

 

2.    Education 

 

Using the smartphones while studying can help someone to do research and revision. However, if students use smartphone to play games, watching videos and listen to music loudly, it can also become the source of distraction to the other students around them. Then, using smartphones also can cause the plagiarism among students. As example, it may be easy for students in a crowded classroom or examination hall to use their smartphones to access information online and cheat in exams. Student can browse the informations from websites or chatting through text messages. 

 

From that, students can easily get the answers but not in the right way. They are lying to themselves and just use the technology of smartphones to answer the exam papers. Besides, students who are too obsess to smartphones can cause the decreases grade in the study. This is because, they will spend a lot of time to just playing games and chatting through applications instead of studying. 

 

3. Social development

 

Social development is one of the survival skills that need to be mastered by people. Everyone should know how to start a conversation with new friend. They also need to know the way to approach someone and manners to people. From that, people will live in a harmony society and loves each other. Besides, having a good relationship with community can help someone in many ways. First of all, it could help to build a solid and strong community. Second, they can help if anything happens to you. 

 

In addition, by having a good social development can make someone to become a great role model to someone else. They will know many people, gain a lot of experiences and devoted to society. They will be out of the comfort zone and think out of the box. This all can happen because of the information and motivation gain when be surround by the successful people. The positive vibe could turn someone from nobody to somebody as long as they have the strong social skill development. 

 

 

Purpose: There are two purposes of this investigation. First of all, is to find out the reasons why UPSI students get too obsess to their smartphones. Second, to find the way to help reducing this problem among the students.
 
 Method(s): Interview & Questionnaire, Video Recording
 
 Production Timeline : As attached
 
 Interviewees: 
 1.     Female student, semester 3.

2.     Male student, semester 3.

3.     Female student, semester 3.

4.     Female student, semester 5.

5.     Female student, semester 5.

6.     Male student, semester 5.

 Interview Questions:

1.     Can you tell us about your background, name, semester and where are you from? 

2.      Do you have a smartphone? If you do, what brand are you using?

3.     Can you tell us what is the last application that you use just now? 

4.     In a day, how long you spend your time playing your smartphone ?

5.     Have you ever having any health problem that happen because of the smartphone?

6.     Do you use your smartphone before sleep? If yes for what reason? 

7.     Did you worry about losing you smartphone?

8.     What would you feel if you really losing it?

9.     How often you update your status on social media?

10.   From your point of view, are UPSI students in the stage of obsess to smartphones? 

11.   Why do you think they choose smartphone rather than anything else?  

Questionnaires

 

Please tick your answer.

 

1.Gender

 

(  ) Male   (  ) Female

 

2. Is smartphone one of the must have item for you?

 

(  ) Yes  (  ) No

 

3. You use your smartphone for

 

(  ) Education (  ) Entertainment (  ) Both

 

4. How much time you spend using your smartphone a day?

 

(  ) Less than 3 hours (  ) 6 – 8  hours  (  ) More than 8 hours

 

5. How much money you spend a month to reload your sim card?

 

(  ) RM 5.00 (  ) RM 10.00 - 30.00 (  ) More than RM 30.00

 

6. What is the effect if student spend too much time playing smartphone?

 

(  ) Heatth problem  ( ) Education problem (  ) Social development

 

7. From your opinion, what do student obsess more ? 

 

(  ) Whatsapp  (  ) Facebook  (  ) Instagram  (  ) Youtube 

 

8. From your point of view, what is the way to help reduce the obsession to smartphone   among the students?

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First, use glaze as one of the materials for building construction because it can performs an important role in achieving the requirements for fire protection. Glaze also can increase the fire resistance to fire penetration and the insulation is about the resistance of excessive heat. As we know, glazing is tends to used in building constructions on window part. In addition, glazing is also complies with the requirements for materials used in construction which glaze not a combustible materials. 

 

Second, we should provide escape routes as a way can help people leave safely and reach a place of safely and quickly. It is important thing that all building occupants know how to escape quickly and when the building fire is happening they are not restricted in the building. When unexpected incident occurs, such as building fire, this could happen with locked doors, obstacles in their path of travel, or smoke-filled escape routes. More importantly, all occupants need to diligently monitor those aspects of their building from day to day to prevent loss of life in many building fire.

 

Third, installing a fire sprinkler system is the best way of controlling the spread of fire when building fire occurs. There are a few advantages of fire sprinkler system, for example fire sprinklers can stop a fire in less than one minutes and half, only the sprinkler closest to the fire will activate, spraying water directly on the fire and surrounding rooms will protect from fire, heat and smoke damage. Moreover, Fire sprinklers work so fast that they often put out a fire before the fire department arrives.  

 

In the nutshell, there are some ways that need to be emphasized in order to enhance the safety of the commercial buildings such as building of Tunku Bainun Library, lecturer hall, E-learning building and the whole building of University Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Most of the building have been provided with the good safety facilities to prevent the occurrence of fire.

Purpose:
1) To investigate how to prevent the occurrence of fire.
2) To help more people to educate about the important to take precautions to prevent the occurrence of fire.

Method(s): 
a) Interview
b) Questionnaire
c) Video Recording

Production Timeline : As attached

Interviewees: 
1. Student 1, Semester 5, Female
2. Student 2, Semester 5, Female
3. Student 3, Semester 5, Male
4. Student 4, Semester 5, Male
5. Security guard, Male
6. Security guard, Male
7. Businesswoman, Female

Interview Questions:
1. In your opinion, what do you know about safety measures that need to be taken to prevent the occurrence of fire in order incident?
2. What is the risk if we don't bother about the measures unexpected incident? 
3. What is the best way to prevent the occurrence of fire occur?
4. What are the benefit if we know how to prevent the fire occur?
5. In your opinion, how to encourage  the community about the important of safety of the building?
6. If you in the unexpected incident such as burning occur, what you do to safe yourself.

 

Purpose: The purpose of the investigation was  to expose student about the importance of Myct points and to find out the actual problem of the students regarding Mycat problem. In addition, describe the link between Mycat requirements with college placement and graduation. This investigation was also conducted for problems related to delays in mycat entry for some programs that students follow.

Methods : a) Interview
     b) Video recording

Production timeline : As attached

Interviewees :
1) JHEPA Staff : Dr. Che Ghani Bin Che Kob 
 2) Randomly choosen students : 6 students 

3) Semester 1 students : 4 students

Interview questions :
1) JHEPA

i) MyCat is refer to?
ii) Who is the founder of MyCat?
iii) Why MyCat is under JHEPA instead of Co-curriculum Centre?
iv) What is the issues of MyCat that ever arisen? 
v) What is the MyCat system improvement?
vi) Is it exist that students who get the MyCat’s award will have a scholarship?
vii) What factors had mattered in MyCat’s award decisions?
viii) Why MyCat are not given to the student based on their position in club/society?
ix) What the cause of students losing their MyCat?


2) RANDOMLY CHOOSEN STUDENTS : 6 STUDENTS
 
 i)  What do you understand about MyCat?

ii)  How much your total of MyCat and are you still stay in college?
 iii) Is it worth the total of MyCat you’ve got compared to the programs you’ve joined?
 iv) Is there any program you’ve joined but don’t get a MyCat?

v)  Do you agree we need MyCat to keep staying in college?
 vi)  From your observation, how far do you know the important of MyCat for students because as we know there still a lot of students doens’t care about MyCat?

vii) What is your opinion to improve the MyCat’s system? 

3) SEMESTER 1 STUDENTS : 4 STUDENTS
 
 i)  Can you please introduce yourself?

ii) Do you know what is MyCat?
 ii) What is your opinion about MyCat’s merit system? 

 

Members:

1. Nurnabilah Syahirah binti Jafri

2. Nur Afifah binti Khalid

3. Dewi binti Salam

4. Chan Mei Yi 

Background:

In general, smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of tobacco product such as a cigarettes, piped and cigar. Initially, some people smoking in order for them to release the stress or in social situation where allow for them to smoke such as hang out with friend. But, at the end, the person will become a smoking habit which means the person became physically addicted to the tobacco product if they do not control their obsession toward tobacco product. Some of the health expert said that smoking habitual is consider as a psychological addiction. As we all known, smoking is bad for our health. The cigarette’s smoke can damage every organ in our body. It also responsible to the leading of cancer, chronic diseases and other health problem.

Based on Journal of the American Medical Association, Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL (2014) said that Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following causes combined Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Illegal drug use, Alcohol use, Motor vehicle injuries and Firearm-related incidents. Furthermore, smoking also increase the tendency for person who are have cancer or survivor to die. If nobody smoked, one of every three cancer deaths in the United States would not happen. That statement revealed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014).

But, what is the problem is when all this type of effect can be affected to smokers also can get into the non-smoking person. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 46 percent of non-smokers experience a slight impact from exposure to cigarette smoke. Obviously, the risk for health problems from the use of tobacco itself is much more than the person who are non-smoker but exposure to the cigarette smoke. The biggest uncommon between the smoker and non-smoker is that most smokers become addicted to nicotine, while the non-smoker is the other way. But in irony, smoking does not just affect the smoker, but also negatively affects family, friends and associates who are non-smoker.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that 438,000 deaths are attributed to cigarette smoking each year; an additional 38,000 deaths are caused by secondhand smoke. Based on the all research above, our group are going to discuss on topic that smoking in public area are allowed or should be prohibited.

Purpose: 

The purpose of this investigation is to observe the habits of the people that smokes in public. Besides, this investigation is important to find out the implications of the nonsmokers that exposed to the secondhand smoke from others in public place. This investigation will involve several people to know their opinions about smoking in the public area that can affects to the civilian.

Method(s): Interview, Video Recording

Production Timeline : As attached

 

Interviewees: 

1. Doctor/nurse in UPSI Clinic – 27/10/2017 - 12pm (Friday) old campus

2. Male Student, semester 5 (kai) 13/10/2017 - around 12.50pm

3. Pregnant Woman 

4. Athlete (Faiz) – 13/10/2017 – 12pm 

5. Female student, semester 5 (tasa) - 13/10/2017 – around 12.30pm

6. Customer at restaurant (amri) 

 

Interview Questions:

1. What is the effect of passive smokers to student and pregnant woman?

2. What is the common disease that will attack the passive smokers?

3. Does the disease can lead to death for passive smokers?

3. Do you agree if there is should be designated smoking areas away from the general public?

4. Can you suggest the best way to avoid or tell the smokers not to smoke in public area?

5. Does KKM aware the issue of smoking in public area which quite famous and dangerous?

6. Can you give some suggestion on what to do if people are struck with smoking people?

7. In current data, how many of non smokers or passive smokers died because of disease got from smell smoke from smokers?

8. Is smoking common among young people?

 

1. Are you a smoker or a non smoker?

2. Do you think smoking cigarettes in a public place is rude and inconsiderate?

3. How do you feel if been exposed to smoke in public places?

3. Do you have trouble breathing or cough when smell or exposed with cigarettes smoke?

4. What do you dislike the most (if anything) about smoking?

5. Do you agree if there is should be designated smoking areas away from the general public?

6. What are some health problems that smoking can cause?

7. Does the State have the right to tell smokers they cannot smoke in restaurants, office buildings, and other public places?

8. Do you ask the smokers not to smoke around you?

9. Do you support/oppose a law that would ban smoking in all public places?

10. Does people are smoking at public area affect your focus?