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Título
Excess weight in relation to lifestyle habits in Spanish first-year university students: differences between pre- and post-COVID-19—A serial cross-sectional study based on uniHcos project
Autor
Año del Documento
2023
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Healthcare, 2023, Vol. 11, Nº. 11, 1547
Resumen
The objective of this research was to study the relationship between the body weight and diet, physical activity, and other habits among freshmen students by sex, and to determine whether these habits have changed during the post-era of the COVID-19 pandemic. A serial cross-sectional study with data from 11 Spanish universities was carried out. In total, 10,096 first-year university students (73.2% female, mean age = 19.0 ± 1.5 years) completed an online self-administered questionnaire between 2012 and 2022. For some analyses, questionnaires were categorized by the year in which the survey was filled out as Before COVID-19, Lockdown, and New Normal. In total, 72.9% of participants were within the normal weight range, and 17.7% of men and 11.8% of women were overweight (p < 0.001). The students who did not meet the WHO criteria of physical activity, spent more than 7 h per day sitting, and skipped breakfast had a higher prevalence of obesity (p < 0.05). According to the period of study, the prevalence of overweight/obesity Before COVID-19 was 16.1% (95% CI: 15.4–16.9%), while in Lockdown the prevalence was significantly higher (20.2, 95% CI: 17.1–23.8) and in New Normal it was 18.9% (CI: 15.7–22.5). Moreover, the study suggests that during the Lockdown period, there was a reduction in the practice of physical activity and an increase in the prevalence of a healthy diet. For all these, it is necessary to propose public health interventions that improve the lifestyles of university students.
Materias (normalizadas)
Overweight
Obesity
Obesidad
Exercise
Ejercicio físico
COVID-19
Education
Education, Higher
Enseñanza superior
College students - Spain
Estudiantes universitarios - España
Lifestyles
Estilos de vida
Public health
Healt policy
Materias Unesco
2411.06 Fisiología del Ejercicio
3212 Salud Publica
5312.04 Educación
ISSN
2227-9032
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, Plan Nacional sobre Drogas - (grant 2010|145, 2013|034,2020|030)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III - (grant PI16/01947)
Fondo Social Europeo y Junta de Castilla y León,Consejería de Educación - (grant EDU/842/2022)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III - (grant PI16/01947)
Fondo Social Europeo y Junta de Castilla y León,Consejería de Educación - (grant EDU/842/2022)
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Propietario de los Derechos
© 2023 The authors
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
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