Peculiarities of commitment of students of a medical universit

Abstract

Purpose: to assess the commitment of medical students to a healthy lifestyle during a new coronavirus infection. Tasks. Identification of threaths to health and identification of motivational factors for maintaining a healthy lifestyle Materials and methods. The study was conducted among first-year students of a medical university in 2018 and 2022 years, 926 first-year students were selected, including 412 people in 2018 (130 men and 282 women), in 2022–514 people (121 men and 393 women). Results. The study showed an increase in the proportion of medical students who consider health a priority value (from 59.1% to 71.7%) and are confident that they lead a healthy lifestyle (from 58.9% to 70.5%), a decrease in the specific weight who do not have physical activity (from 15.7 to 4.5%) and smokers (from 13.0% to 6.4). An increase in the number of students controlling the consumption of sugar, fruits and vegetables was recorded. The pandemic did not affect the opinion of students about the main factors affecting health: in the first ranking place, almost half of the students have systematic lack of sleep. On the second – overload associated with the educational process, on the third – the presence of bad habits. Conclusion. The study showed that the pandemic had a mixed effect on the adherence to a healthy lifestyle. Along with the growth of adherence, the opinion of students about the main factors affecting health has not changed. As in the pre-Covid period, students demonstrate opposite opinions about the influence of such factors as the presence of bad habits, passive smoking, an uncomfortable psychological microclimate in the group, overweight, hereditary predisposition. A significant part of the students indicate that the leading motivational factor influencing the implementation of health preservation is a regular and systematic study of the theoretical foundations of a healthy lifestyle.