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| Title |
Healthy lifestyles of the university population.
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| Published in |
Nutrición Hospitalaria, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.3305/nh.2015.31.5.8608 |
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| Authors |
María Angustias Sánchez-Ojeda, Elvira De Luna-Bertos |
| Abstract |
The lifestyle is defined as the set of behavioral patterns and daily habits of a person, which maintained over time may become dimensions of risk or safety depending on their nature. The aim of this study was to know the lifestyles of university students in the following dimensions: diet, exercise, consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, sex and road safety. We made a literature review in electronic databases: PubMed, SCIELO and CUIDEN, between 2002-2014; using as keywords habits, lifestyle, health behaviors, young adult and university students. From articles found, stand out as most relevant data that university students have a high presence of favorable beliefs about healthy lifestyles and nevertheless not put into practice. We could conclude that according to different authors, university students in general have not a good eating habits, eating unbalanced diets high in calories. Besides the physical exercise is null, knowing that a good diet and doing exercise have beneficial effects on health. To this must be added the high consumption of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana among university students. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 1016 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 224 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 76 | 7% |
| Professor | 56 | 5% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 45 | 4% |
| Researcher | 39 | 4% |
| Other | 137 | 13% |
| Unknown | 443 | 43% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 184 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 125 | 12% |
| Psychology | 47 | 5% |
| Sports and Recreations | 45 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 38 | 4% |
| Other | 138 | 14% |
| Unknown | 443 | 43% |