Hábitos no saludables y práctica de actividad física en estudiantes universitarios españoles: papel del género, perfil académico y convivencia

Psychological Distress, Family Support and Employment Status in First-Year University Students in Spain

“…The start of university might constitute a crucial period for students’ mental health [1,2,3,4]. During this period, they generally have to face a number of important changes in their lives, like moving, taking on more responsibilities, and adapting to changes in their support network [5].…”

Editorial: Psychological Distress Among University Students

“…For some emerging adults, this phase coincides years of higher education, which implies further tasks: performance demands, changes in living conditions, dealing with a new social and educational context (Settersten and Ray, 2010;Schulenberg and Schoon, 2012). Starting higher education seems to constitute a crucial transition for mental health (Molina et al, 2012;Pedrelli et al, 2015;Auerbach et al, 2016;Harris, 2019), since students consistently report higher levels of distress compared to the general population (James et al, 2017;Tariku et al, 2017;Mboya et al, 2020). In particular, university students seem characterized by high levels of depression, anxiety and suicide risk (see among others Beiter et al, 2015;Auerbach et al, 2016;Larcombe et al, 2016;Rotenstein et al, 2016;Oyekcin et al, 2017;Poorolajal et al, 2017;Tran et al, 2017;Villatte et al, 2017;Tang et al, 2018).…”

Habits and behaviours related to the health in adolescents during their leisure time

“…When it comes to university population, it is observable how this gap has been investigated in relation with the identification of their physical activity habits (Blasco, Cruz, Pintanet i Bassets, Capdevila, & Valiente, 1996), smoking habits (Hasim, 2000), creation of smoking habits (Rozi, Butt, & Akhtar, 2007), relation between the consumption of energetic drinks and smoking habits (Ibrahim et at., 2014), drugs consumption (Molina et al, 2012), nutritional habits (Marcondelli, Costa, & Schmitz, 2008;Sakamai, Toyama, Amamoto, Lui, & Shinfuky, 2005;Yahia, Achkar, Abdallah, & Rizk, 2008), energetic food and physical inactivity (Hall, Ochoa, & Muñiz, 2014), unhealthy nutritional habits (Silliman, Rodas-Fortier, & Neyman, 2004;Younis, 2014), and the time invested in physical activity (Silliman et al, 2004). In Spain, a total of 720 undergraduates from Galicia completed a questionnaire whose results showed that 78.3% of the students consume alcohol, 31.7%, tobacco and 34% has consumed illegal drugs at any time.…”

“…This study shows that living with friends is a risk factor of legal-and-illegal-drug consumption. Sport, health and education undergraduates showed a lower prevalence on consumption drugs (Molina et al, 2012). Therefore, the tobacco consumption and other kind of drugs are related with the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle (Guillén, Roth, Alfaro, & Fernández, 2015;Zamarripa, Ruiz, López, & Fernández, 2013).…”