QUALIDADE DO SONO EM UNIVERSITÁRIOS NO CONTEXTO DA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19: um olhar multifatorial

Abstract

The pandemic of COVID-19 was accompanied by losses in emotional, eating habits, and physical activity. University students were uncertain about their academic life, with the paralyzation of face-to-face activities in universities. The study aimed to compare the profile (emotional states, physical activity and eating habits) of university students with self-perception of sleep quality affected by the pandemic (QSA) with those with self-perception of unaffected sleep quality (n-QSA) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 01/2021 and 04/2021, students at the Universidade Federal de Goiás completed, via an online tool, an adaptation of the questionnaire Convid-Pesquisa de Comportamentos. 173 students answered this instrument. Data were tabulated and organized, individuals were divided into two groups: the QSA (103) and the n-QSA (70), and comparison was made between the two using Student's t-test and x2 test. For significance, the criterion adopted was p<0.05. The QSA group showed higher demand for mental health care (0.0431*), higher self-perception of high anxiety/nervousness (0.0095*), sadness (0.0040*), and affective isolation (0.0038*) in the pandemic. The QSA group also had a lower level of physical activity (0.0306*) during the pandemic. Furthermore, the QSA group had a lower frequency of whole food consumption before COVID-19 than the n-QSA group. This indicated greater impairment in the emotional states of the QSA group. Good habits are important for proper health.