Physical exercise, eating habits and stress: What happened to university student during the pandemic?
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Salud mental, Aptitud física, Calidad de vidaAbstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, confinement, radical changes in lifestyle habits and suspicions of contagion favored an increase in vulnerability to stress. With the objective of analyzing physical activity and the association with nutritional status, nutritional habits and vulnerability to stress in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive, comparative and cross-sectional study was carries out. The sample was made up of 350 students, 207 women and 143 men, who are studying in Schools of Education and Health, at a private university. The IPAQ short version test, the eating habits survey and the stress vulnerability test were applied. Men have higher METs than women (p<0.001). Type I obese patients are less vulnerable to stress than normal weight and overweight patients (p<0.001). high levels of physical activity had healthier eating habits than moderate or low physical activity (p<0.001) and high physical activity in confinement had greater vulnerability to stress levels (p<0.001). Unhealthy eating habits were less vulnerable to stress than regular or healthy eating habits (p<0.001). In conclusion, college students with higher levels of physical activity are more vulnerable to stress in confinement context, whereas, college students with physical inactivity and less healthy nutritional states such as type I obesity are less likely to be vulnerable to stress in the same context.
Keywords: Physical activity, university students, eating habits, mental health, sedentary lifestyle.
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