Abstract

PAEZ CALA, Martha Luz  and  CASTANO CASTRILLON, José Jaime. ESTILOS DE VIDA Y SALUD EN ESTUDIANTES DE UNA FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA: Lifestyles and health of students in a Psychology Program. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2010, n.25, pp.155-178. ISSN 0123-417X.

Objective: to explore some of the life style components from students of the faculty of Psychology of the Universidad de Manizales, in Manizales, Caldas (Colombia). Method: cross-sectional study executed during the second semester of 2008, with a sample of 172 students. Results': average age of 21.42 years, 82% are women, 64.7% come from Manizales. Students live with an average of 3 people, 85,4% are single. 39.4% practice an activity outside the study; in 52,9% this is activity some kind of sport and work in the same proportion. 65.1% are non-smokers, 34.6% have problems with alcohol and 21.1% present alcohol dependence. 65% protect themselves from STD's, 87.2% protect themselves from pregnancy. Close relationships only with family, in majority good relationships with their friends, classmates teachers and human development; far relations with support networks. Highlight 62.9% of family dysfunction, from mild to severe. Only 13.6% of the students have an adequate nutrition, 65,2% have a light form of somnolence, 24,7% present a positive risk factor of impulsiveness. Around 40% of the population has anxiety problems, 7,7% a probability for depression, 14,8% have a suicidal risk factor. Conclusions: the high indicators of health risk factors for this population confirm what is described in other studies developed with young university students.

Keywords : Life style; risk factor; Psychology students.

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