Revista Arbitrada Interdisciplinaria de Ciencias de la Salud. Salud y Vida
versão On-line ISSN 2610-8038
Resumo
FLORES-BRITO, Pedro Renato; REINOSO-GUADALUPE, Daniel Renato e ROSERO-ORDONEZ, Shirley Fernanda. Self-perceived overweight and obesity in university students. Case: Medicine-Superior Polytechnic School of Chimborazo, Ecuador. Salud y Vida [online]. 2023, vol.7, n.13, pp.4-14. Epub 15-Jul-2023. ISSN 2610-8038. https://doi.org/10.35381/s.v.v7i13.2296.
Objective:
To describe self-perceived overweight and obesity in university students. Case Medical School, Ecuador.
Methodology:
The positivist paradigm was used from the quantitative perspective, with a non-experimental design, the type of research is field and descriptive level application of a questionnaire to a group of university students, a questionnaire was structured with the Kobotoolbox tool, which had a total of 27 questions containing socio demographic issues and specific topics to analyze the presence of obesity and overweight.
Results:
The more class time, the more screen time, the less physical activity.
Conclusion:
It is shown that being sedentary increases in 2.8 times the probability of being overweight, although it is not significantly significant, it becomes a risk factor to be considered.
Palavras-chave : Obesity; obesity; physical activity; eating habits.











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