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CES Medicina
Print version ISSN 0120-8705
Abstract
CABRERA-MORA, Marieth Natalia; ALEGRIA-HOYOS, Camila Andrea; VILLAQUIRAN-HURTADO, Andrés Felipe and JACOME-VELASCO, Sandra Jimena. Mental health, sleep habits and level of physical activity in medical students in virtual education. CES Med. [online]. 2022, vol.36, n.2, pp.17-35. Epub Sep 29, 2022. ISSN 0120-8705. https://doi.org/10.21615/cesmedicina.6700.
Introduction:
isolation brought methodological changes in the development of traditional study plans to virtual educational strategies, which could affect mental health, sleep habits and physical activity levels during the COVID-19 pandemic in university students.
Objective:
to determine the mental health status, sleep habits and level of physical activity during virtual education by COVID-19 in undergraduate students of the medical program of a public university in the department of Cauca.
Method:
descriptive study, conducted with 268 students from the medicine program selected by non-probabilistic sampling, who filled out a survey through the Google questionnaire platform, which contained 54 questions divided into three components: demographic and isolation characteristics; mental health status; sleeping habits and level of physical activity.
Results:
58.6% of the student population felt tired for no apparent reason; 41.8% sometimes had difficulty falling asleep; more than half of the population presented mood swings; 48.5% (n=130) did not perform physical activity. In addition, a relationship was found between mental health and sleep habits, finding statistical significance between anxiety and changes in appetite.
Conclusions:
virtual education during the pandemic, produced alterations in sleep habits, mood changes (sadness, anxiety, irritability and fear), a low level of physical activity, in addition, a relationship was found between emotional changes, appetite and sleep habits.
Keywords : medicine; coronavirus; students; sleep; mental health; exercise.