BACKGROUND : Dyspepsia syndrome is one of the incommunicable disease that have a
high incidence rate around globe and become a common health problem and often in daily
doctor’ examination room. Approximately almost 30% cases of dyspepsia syndrome
discovered in practical room and 60% cases in gastroenterology. In Indonesia, approximately
almost 30% patients comes to practitioner is the patient with dyspepsia problem. Patients
who comes to gastroenterologist is about 60% with dyspepsia problem.
.PURPOSE : To determine the correlation between eating irregularity with the incidence of
functional dyspepsia syndrome in medical students of Muhammadiyah Makassar University
2015
METODE: This study uses an analytical observational with cross sectional approach. The
amount of respondents are 161. The respondents was chosen by purposive sampling
technique. The data was analyzed using Chi-Square Test on SPSS 21 version.
HASIL: According the result of data analyzing with Pearson Chi-Square Test get the pvalue is 0.022 less than α (0.05)
KESIMPULAN: This study conclude that there is a significant correlation between
functional dyspepsia syndrome in medical students of Muhammadiyah Makassar University
2015
KEYWORD: Eating irregularity and functional dyspepsia syndrome