Prevalence of food addiction and its association with anxiety, depression, and adherence to social distancing measures in Brazilian university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study

Several factors can cause damage to the mental health of university students, e.g. academic adaptation, housing change, distance from family and friends, and dealing with stressors regarding new requirements, which need some resources to cope with such situations. The content of this book, from the Master's Dissertation developed by the authors at the Stricto-Sensu Psychology and Health Post-Graduation Program at the Medical School of São José do Rio Preto - FAMERP, aims at describing the presence of mental disorders and demonstrating the implementation of a life-skills training in university students (Medicine and Nursing), randomly chosen in a teaching institution in a medium-sized city, interior of São Paulo state. The participants expressed high symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress in the initial evaluation, however, after the training of group life skills, they showed significant improvements with maintenance of these rates during the follow-up. This training can be stood out to improve the mental health and life skills of the students. It is likely that the intervention group may have helped these students to cope with negative pressures, avoiding risky behaviors, communicating effectively; moreover, coping with adaptations and changes in such academic process. It is worthwhile to point out that this study may encourage further research in relation to mental health and life-skills in university students, and that it will encourage the insertion of programs with these skills training, due to their effectiveness, low cost, the participants´ acceptance, improvement in mental health, and provide increasing academic performance.

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Social distancing, boredom and alcohol during Covid-19. A research in Italy on a sample of university students

International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP) ◽

10.29322/ijsrp.11.06.2021.p11449 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 375-381

Author(s):

Nicola Malizia

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Social Distancing

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Measuring University Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes toward Sudden Transition to Online Learning and Academic Self- Efficacy

International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies ◽

10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.9n.4p.153 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 153

Author(s):

Mona Saad Alamri

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

University Students ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Student Attitudes ◽

Learning Experiences ◽

Statistical Correlation ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Sudden Transition ◽

Academic Self Efficacy

Online learning has unquestionably shaped contemporary education. The emergence and spread in recent months of the COVID-19 virus, with the attendant preventative implementation of social distancing, has significantly enhanced online learning’s influence. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where strict social distancing precautions were implemented early in the pandemic, thousands of college students were rapidly shifted from conventional to online instructional environments. Now that these students have a semester of experience with online learning, the time is propitious to explore these students’ online learning experiences. One concept in connection with which students’ online learning experiences have not been extensively studied is that of academic self-efficacy. The present study seeks to investigate Jeddah University students’ experiences with online learning in light of their assessments of their academic self-efficacy. Employing a combined descriptive/correlational research design organized around a pair of survey instruments—one designed to query students’ online learning experiences and a second designed to measure their senses of their academic self-efficacy—the present study investigates attitudes of a population of 1,167 Jeddah University undergraduate students randomly selected from the available pool of 16,893 individuals. The study finds that student attitudes with respect to both online learning and self-efficacy are high. It shows, furthermore, significant statistical correlation between students’ highly positive experiences with online instruction and their high senses of their academic self-efficacy. By developing the understanding regarding student attitudes and self-efficacy, this research opens avenues for further research into the connections between online learning and students’ self-perceptions. Moreover, the study’s findings hold significant implications for bettering Saudi Arabian e-learning, an outcome fully in keeping with the policy goals outlined in the 2030 vision.

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Validation of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in postgraduate university students

Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity ◽

10.1007/s40519-018-0495-0 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 167-176 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Gian Mauro Manzoni ◽

Alessandro Rossi ◽

Giada Pietrabissa ◽

Giorgia Varallo ◽

Enrico Molinari ◽

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Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Food Addiction ◽

Yale Food Addiction Scale

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Relationship between suicidal thinking, anxiety, depression and stress in university students who are victims of cyberbullying

Psychiatry Research ◽

10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112856 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 286 ◽

pp. 112856 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

María Carmen Martínez-Monteagudo ◽

Beatriz Delgado ◽

Ángela Díaz-Herrero ◽

José Manuel García-Fernández

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Suicidal Thinking ◽

Anxiety Depression

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Investigation of Food Addiction and Impulsivity Relations Biological Rhythms Differences and Insomnia in University Students

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.139 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S284-S285

Author(s):

A. Kandeger ◽

Y. Selvi

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Focal Point ◽

Food Addiction ◽

Biological Rhythms ◽

Severity Index ◽

Yale Food Addiction Scale ◽

Prevalence Of Obesity ◽

Competing Interest ◽

Psychological Instruments

ObjectiveIncreasing prevalence of obesity in the world and increasing role of processed foods in daily life has led to become the focal point of food addiction. This study aims to investigation of food addiction and impulsivity relations biological rhythms differences and insomnia in university students.MethodOne thousand and five hundred students planned to participate who studies in Konya Selcuk University central campus. Participants were to fill out the test during their classes under physician supervision. The volunteers completed a package of psychological instruments including the Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire, Yale Food Addiction Scale, Insomnia Severity Index, and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale administered by two investigators in their classrooms.ResultsIn total, 1323 forms were suitable for statistical analysis. The mean age was 20.83, mean BMI was 22.02. Food addiction prevalence was 18.2%. Our study showed that association between the eveningness type and food addiction (P < 0.045). Also, the eveningness type and insomnia were in positive correlation in impulsivity (P < 0.001).ConclusionThis study has explored the association between eveningness type of biological rhythms, food addiction, insomnia and impulsivity.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Rapid review and meta-meta-analysis of self-guided interventions to address anxiety, depression and stress during COVID-19 social distancing

10.31234/osf.io/ndyf4 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ronald Fischer ◽

Johannes Alfons Karl ◽

Tiago Bortolini ◽

Marcelo Zilberberg ◽

Kealagh Robinson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Meta Analysis ◽

Relative Effectiveness ◽

Well Being ◽

Rapid Review ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Therapeutic Approaches ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Cultural Boundaries ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

Anxiety Depression

We conducted a rapid review and quantitative summary of meta-analyses that have examined interventions which can be used by individuals during quarantine and social distancing to manage anxiety, depression, stress and subjective well-being. A literature search yielded 34 meta-analyses (total number of studies k = 1,390, n = 145,744) that were summarized. Overall, self-guided interventions showed small to medium effects in comparison to control groups demonstrating their effectiveness. In particular, therapeutic approaches (including cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, and acceptance-based interventions), selected positive psychology interventions, and multi-component and activity based interventions (music, physical exercise) showed promising evidence for effectiveness. Many of these interventions are available in online or smartphone app form. At the same time, self-guided interventions on average did not show the same degree of effectiveness as traditional guided individual or group therapies. The review points to activities and practices that can be adapted by individuals as a first step to manage their mental health during social distancing and quarantines. Further research is clearly needed on activities helping individuals to interact and live in constrained living conditions (e.g, improving social interactions during quarantine) and the relative effectiveness of self-guided interventions across cultural boundaries.

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