Desafios para a construção do estilo de vida e comportamento alimentar saudável pós-período da pandemia Covid-19 de estudantes de diferentes cursos da UFCG/CES, Campus Cuité, PB.

Abstract

The university period is marked by a transition to a new reality, which there are many challenges for students to reconcile the daily routine with the university curriculum and course demands. This whole paradigm was considerably affected after the beginning of the Covid-19 virus pandemic in 2020, so that many students had to abruptly change their lives due to the social isolation restrictions adopted to face the virus. Consequently, a great moment of uncertainty, stress and food insecurity was generated, as many people lost their jobs, the universities stopped working and, linked to this, the fear of contamination and death due to the virus. In addition, there was the initial problem of lack of concrete information and the circulation of fake news, resulting in a collapse in society. Thus, during this period, one of the escapes to compensate emotional exhaustion used by many university students was to eat compulsively or stop eating at all. Then, the objective of this research is to evaluate the main challenges for the construction of a healthy lifestyle and eating behavior after the period of the Covid-19 pandemic for students from different courses at the Federal University of Campina Grande/Education Center and Health, campus Cuité, PB. This study is exploratory, cross-sectional and it will be directed to undergraduate students from all courses on the Cuité/PB campus of UFCG – CES. The research for the future evaluation of the data will be based on questionnaires. The first model will analyze and measure the stress that was observed through the perception of individuals to stressful situations from the use of the Perceivde Stres Scale - PSS. The second model will assess the challenges in building a healthy lifestyle, which will be established through the Tree Factor Eating Questionnaire-21 (adapted). The third and final questionnaire will analyze healthy eating behavior through a personalized questionnaire, which will include the frequency and/or regularity of consumption of certain food groups. Based on data analysis, the courses comprise the main challenges for building the post-pandemic life of students in different ways UFCG/CES are the determining factors of UFCG/CES are the factors that make it difficult, stress, overload of overload. And through the findings, it is necessary to promote and dietary strategies to improve eating habits and lifestyle, thus enacting health, through active university groups, as well as classes to create spaces and therapies that students understand and help their feelings.