Comportamento alimentar e fatores de risco cardiovascular consequentes ao isolamento social e suspensão de aulas presenciais, em tempos de pandemia pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2 em estudantes de nutrição

Abstract

The pandemic situation caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused changes in people's daily lives, generating strong changes in food consumption. Food, in many cases, was seen as an escape from various situations of stress, nervousness and anxiety. Conditions carry health risks, including cardiovascular diseases. The objective of the study is to identify dietary changes and the presence of risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases in students of the nutrition course, with the suspension of face-to-face classes as a result of the pandemic caused by the SARS COV-2 virus. This is an exploratory and cross-sectional study, developed with undergraduate students of the nutrition course at a Public University, food consumption and sociodemographic issues were evaluated from a questionnaire used on the online platform Google forms, tabulated in Excel and analyzed in SPSS software. 71 students of both sexes participated in the research, with a predominance of females, with a higher rate of overweight and obesity. About 68% of the sample had relatives with CNCDs, 53% showed an increase in the consumption of ultra-processed foods and 65% anxiety, manifested low consumption of in-natura foods and high consumption of alcohol during isolation. We found that consumption and eating behavior underwent changes in the period of social isolation, impacting individuals with a negative result in the lives of students, whether related to changes in emotional state, eating behavior or sequelae of COVID-19, leaving these students conducive to developing factors risk for cardiovascular disease.