Anxiety and association with eating behavior, alcohol consumption, depression and manias in university students

Eating behavior, alcohol consumption, and anxiety, depression and manias, can negatively influence university students, in their healthy lifestyle. This study of transversal and inferential descriptive type that included a representative sample conformed by university students of the last degree of the health area of the Autonomous University of Campeche, México. The purpose of this work was to determine in students of the health area, the associations that exist between the alimentary behavior with the consumption of alcohol, anxiety, depression and manias. The tests used were alcohol consumption (AUDIT), anxiety and depression(GOLDBERG) and manias (YOUNG) and FOOD BEHAVIOR for Mexican students. Descriptive statistic was used to determine the frequencies of: body mass index, eating behavior, alcohol consumption, anxiety, depression and manias, and Chi-square test as inferential statistic test to obtain the existing associations or not, among the variables studied. Our results demonstrating more than half of the university students included in the study of the health area presented problems of overweight and obesity. More than two thirds of the population have a poor eating behavior. The fifth part of participant’s abuse in the consumption of alcohol. Almost half of young have the psychological anxiety disorder. One third of young’s have depression behavior. Almost a fifth of the population showed manias behavior. Thus, overweight and obesity were associated with poor or regular eating behavior in students; while the psychological disorder of anxiety was associated with eating behavior, alcohol consumption, depression and manias.