Lifestyles students practicing the school of health sciences

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization lifestyles are "a general way of life based on the interaction between living conditions and individual patterns of behavior determined by cultural factors and personal characteristics. Objetive: To describe the lifestyles that students practice University School of Health Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Honduras in the Valle de Sula (EUCS-UNAHVS), made the first half of 2015. Patients And Methods quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study Population 3540, 347 sample stratified by race: 98 nursing, Dentistry and Medicine 85. 164 survey instrument type, prior informed consent. Results 57% (198) ate cafeteria food, 33% (114) food from home and 10% (35) bought in restaurants. The 47% (163) itself to exercise. The 28% (97) consumed more than 8 glasses of water a day. 51% (177) consumed alcoholic beverages. 30% (104) consumed psychoactive substances. 59% (205) sometimes sleep at least seven hours. Conclusion The results indicate that students in the area of health practice partially healthy lifestyles, exercising some risk behaviors for biopsychosocial being.

Keywords

Health behavior, life style, students, health occupations