Atividade física, comportamento alimentar e humor em universitários de cursos da área da saúde

Abstract

Cross-sectional study with 67 college students that aimed to evaluate the relationship between physical activity, eating behavior and symptoms of mood disorders in undergraduate students of Medicine, Nutrition and Nursing at the Federal University of Tocantins, Campus de Palmas. For data collection we used an electronic questionnaire divided into sections: A - Demographic aspects; B - Socioeconomic aspects; C - State of health; D - Habits of life; E- eating behavior; F - Anxiety symptoms; G - Depression symptoms and H - Stress symptoms. To measure physical activity levels, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire - IPAQ short version was used; for eating behavior the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire was used; to evaluate anxiety symptoms the Beck Anxiety Inventory; depression symptoms through the Beck II Depression Inventory and stress symptoms through the Perceived Stress Scale. The data were analyzed with the program Stata version 13.0. The significance level of α = 0.05 was adopted. It was found that 58.2% of the sample had insufficient levels of physical activity, 44.65% had some type of inappropriate eating behavior, 16.74% anxiety symptom, 21.82% stress symptom and 14.76%. Depression symptom. No relationship was found between the level of physical activity, mood symptoms and dysfunctional eating behaviors. It was concluded that there was no relationship between physical activity levels with eating behavior and mood disorder symptoms in the studied sample.