Coronavirus Disease 2019, also known as COVID-19, has emerged as the latest viral disease that has alarmed the whole world since January of 2020. The disease has been rapidly spreading now affecting the other areas of the globe and was eventually declared as a global pandemic in March 2020. Cessation of movement to halt the spread of the disease has been imposed across the world. This was to protect the people from transmitting and acquiring the deadly disease. Consequently, various sectors of society have been gravely affected most especially medical education. This study was designed to determine the lifestyle habits, spiritual well-being, and quality of life of the Medical Students during the COVID-19 crisis. The study utilized an analytical cross-sectional study design. A total of 201 medical students were targeted to participate in the study, but only 158 medical students qualified to join. No dropouts were noted. A Google form link was disseminated among the participants as a survey platform. Medical students were asked to answer 5 questionnaires – (Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Eating Habits Survey Questionnaire, Spiritual Well-Being Scale, and World Health Organization Quality of life-BREF). Data derived by these tools were analyzed using STATA (Statistics/Data Analysis) and SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). Results revealed that a great number of medical students are poor sleepers and that the majority of the students are physically inactive during the COVID-19 crisis. Most of them consumed meat/meat products, grain/grainy products, vegetables/fruits, and milk/dairy products during the crisis, while the most consumed beverage is coffee/tea. The study also looked into the Spiritual well-being of the medical students. The majority of the medical students (56.3%) were moderately spiritual while the remaining 43.7% were highly spiritual. Fifty-eight percent of the medical students highly associated their relationship with a higher power, while 69.0% of them moderately sensed their meaning and purpose in life. It was also found that among the domains of quality of life, the physical health domain scored highest while the psychological domain scored lowest. The medical students who scored high in their subjective overall quality of life and quality of health; had higher domain scores for physical health, psychological health, social relations domains, and environmental health domains. Prevalence of low/impaired quality of life was further assessed and the results showed that most of the students were with low quality of life scored low on environmental health. This study however is just one of the few studies that looked into the lifestyle habits, spiritual well-being, and quality of life of the medical students of Ateneo de Zamboanga University – School of Medicine during the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, more are encouraged to study other issues associated with this topic in the near future.

Keyword: Lifestyle habits, spiritual well-being, and quality of life of medical students