Abstract

TAMAYO CARDONA, Julián Andrés; RODRIGUEZ, Karen; ESCOBAR, Kimberly  and  MEJIA, Ana María. LIFESTYLES OF DENTAL STUDENTS. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.2, pp.147-160. ISSN 0121-7577.  https://doi.org/10.17151/hpsal.2015.20.2.10.

Objective: To identify and describe the lifestyles of university students of a dental school in the city of Cali. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study, in which a total of 205 students, randomly selected, participated. The Questionnaire Lifestyle of University Students was used to assess eight lifestyle dimensions: physical activity, leisure time, diet, alcohol consumption, cigarettes and illegal drugs use, hours of sleep, interpersonal skills, coping, and perceived emotional state. The research was approved by the ethics committee and it was classified no risk according to resolution 8430/93 from the Health-Ministry. Descriptive statistics and multilevel regression model were used to characterize lifestyles. Results: The healthiest practice of dental students was physical activity (indicator = 30.8%). Riskier practices were: interpersonal skills (indicator = 73.5%), hours of sleep (indicator = 72.2%) and consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and illegal drugs (indicator = 70.6%). A significant difference between the semesters studied and dimensions of the Questionnaire Lifestyle of University Students (p < 0.05) was evident, except in the coping dimension (p = 0.931). Conclusions: Women have healthier physical activity practices than men; however, they have riskier practices in the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and illegal drugs, and diet. Older students have a healthier leisure time. Students who work and study and who are married, have healthy diet and emotional state practices, the latter have better health habits in the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and illegal drugs and time of sleep.

Keywords : Life style; behavior; behavioral medicine; health promotion.

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