INVESTIGATING IRANIAN STUDENTSʹʹ DIET PATTERNS, HEALTH CONDITION AND SLEEP QUALITY

Factors like quality of diet, physical health condition, and the amount of sleep have important effects on studentsʹ well-being and academic achievement. The current study investigated some issues related to the TEFL MA studentsʹ diet patterns, health condition and sleep quality. To this aim, 31 MA students (11 male, and 20 female) were selected through convenience sampling. A questionnaire on related issues was developed by researchers and translated to Persian for the sake of ease of administration. The data was analyzed through content analysis and frequency count procedures and it was found that MA students have some problems regarding quality of diet, physical health condition, and amount of sleep which may affect the learnersʹ academic achievement. This study may render some educational implications for policy makers and officials to increase the amount of educational achievement by raising studentsʹ awareness towards the three above-mentioned factors and providing some solutions for studentsʹ problems.