Eating and Lifestyle of University Students During the Worldwide Covid-19 Pandemic
Objective: The aim of this article was to find whether the global COVID-19 pandemic could affect eating habits in the form of breakfast as the first meal of the day, and whether due to the global COVID-19 pandemic there was achange in body weight in selected university students studying in the Czech Republic. Design:Structured anonymous online questionnaire survey Participans:Atotal of 628 university students studying in the Czech Republic (68.95% women; 31.05% men) mostly aged 20 to 29 (63.38%) Methods:Mathematical-statistical methods were used to ver- ify the established research questions, namely Pearson's chi- square test and to investigate the strength of the dependence - Cramer's V. Results and Conclusion:There is arelationship between reg- ular eating habits in the form of breakfast as the first morning meal of aday, before and during COVID-19 and gender and also the biological age of respondents. Furthermore, it was found that there is astatistically significant relationship be- tween the change in body weight during COVID-19 and gen- der, as well as the biological age of the respondents.