Teachers of the Department of Biomedical Statistics and Evidence-Based Medicine conducted an initiative scientific study "Studying the factors of life of students of KazNU named after al-Farabi and their association with indicators of the quality of life." To collect data, a questionnaire was used in Russian and Kazakh languages ​​from 45 questions, including sections of demographic information, smoking, including hookah and electronic cigarettes, alcohol consumption, the nature and characteristics of sleep, the nature and level of physical activity, including the use of gadgets and sports nutrition, parts of eating habits, as well as a standardized questionnaire of the overall quality of life SF-8.

       A survey of students was conducted in the summer of 2017, the questionnaires received were processed electronically using the NCSS software packages.

The results of the study showed a rather high level of physical activity of students of KazNU - up to 60% of students regularly go in for sports; but a greater vulnerability of female students to future diseases associated with inadequate physical activity has been identified.

       Combined prevention programs aimed at stopping smoking and increasing the duration of healthy sleep can significantly increase the level of physical activity of students, such images, reducing the likelihood of many diseases associated with low activity.

       According to the results of the work, two articles have been prepared, one of which is published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, and the second is on the review in an international peer-reviewed journal with a non-zero impact factor.

The text of the published article is available on the following link: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-018-0220-4.