Body Mass and Quality of Life Indicators of Health Academics at a University in the State of Amazonas

Abstract

The undergraduate courses in have faced constant transformations, referring to social changes, the epidemiological profile of health problems and it is still possible to identify challenges inherent to training in the health area, highlighting the profile of students of undergraduate courses at health, making it necessary to research about the sociodemographic and academic profile of students in the academic environment, investigating how they are in this environment and their quality of life. In view of this, we proposed to investigate the sociodemographic profile of academics in the health area of the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, in order to describe it, correlating it with the data collected on quality of life and thus deepening the knowledge about the subjects. Cross-sectional quantitative research will be carried out.The data obtained were analyzed both by means of statics in Excel and by the questionnaire protocol adopted.. It was applied to a sample of 343 students, above what was required by the sample calculation.In it, the course with the highest incidence of ideal BMI was the Physical Education course. As for the quality of life, in ranking, where the Nursing, Physical Education and medicine courses had the best quality, respectively, while dentistry was in last place. Regarding the sociodemographic profile, we used the amount of minimum wages per capita as an indicator, with medicine having the highest accumulation of income. Meanwhile, dentistry had more than 58% of its population with income below 2.9 minimum wages. This directly affected their quality of life, especially those in full-time courses, since, for their survival and that of their families,