Relação da qualidade do sono, estado nutricional e comportamento alimentar compulsivo de universitários.

Abstract

Objective: To identify and relate the sleep quality, nutritional status and compulsive eating behavior of university students. Methods: Cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach with 118 university students of both sexes enrolled in nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and nutrition courses. Two self-administered instruments were used to obtain the data: the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Binge Eating Scale (BES), as well as the inclusion of questions covering the following data: course, course semester, age, gender, weight and height self-referred, which were used to assess nutritional status through the calculation of body mass index (BMI). It was used the chi-square test to compare the data, using significance level of p <0.05. Results: It was 83.9% female and 16.1% male, aged between 18 and 44. The average BMI was 24.08 kg / m². The nutritional status in eutrophia prevailed in 71.2% of the students. The PSQI showed that 72% of academics had poor sleep quality. At BES, 25.4% of the students presented some degree of binge eating. There was a statistically significant association between BMI and BES (p = 0.034) and also between PSQI and BES (p = 0.012). Conclusion: It was concluded that the majority of university students had poor sleep quality, nutritional status in eutrophia and a lack of binge eating. It was also showed a relationship between compulsive eating behavior with nutritional status and with sleep quality.