Table 4.
Sociodemographic, academic, lifestyle and behavioral data distributed according to nutritional status of undergraduate students at a university in southeastern Brazil in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vitória, 2022.
| Variables | Nutritional status (third year) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underweight/Eutrophic | Overweight/Obese | p-value | Total | |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Sex | 0.016 | |||
| Male | 32 (21.8) | 37 (35.6) | 69 (27.5) | |
| Female | 115 (78.2) | 67 (64.6) | 182 (72.5) | |
| Marital status | <0.001 | |||
| Do not live maritally | 141 (95.9) | 81 (77.9) | 222 (88.4) | |
| Live maritally | 6 (4.1) | 23 (22.1) | 29 (11.6) | |
| Race/skin color1,a | 0.614 | |||
| White | 67 (47.5) | 56 (54.4) | 123 (50.4) | |
| Black | 17 (12) | 14 (13.6) | 31 (12.7) | |
| Brown | 55 (39) | 32 (31) | 87 (35.6) | |
| Oriental/Indigenous | 2 (1.4) | 1 (1.0) | 3 (1.3) | |
| Education of the head of the family | 0.491 | |||
| Did not study/Primary complete | 40 (27.2) | 24 (23.1) | 64 (25.5) | |
| Secondary complete | 58 (39.5) | 43 (41.3) | 101 (40.2) | |
| Complete higher education/Post-graduate | 49 (33.3) | 37 (35.6) | 86 (34.3) | |
| Family income (minimum wage) 2 | 0.241 | |||
| ≤ 2 minimum wage | 69 (50.7) | 47 (47.5) | 116 (49.4) | |
| > 2 minimum wage | 67 (49.3) | 52 (52.5) | 119 (50.6) | |
| Graduation area | 0.142 | |||
| Health | 60 (40.8) | 33 (31.7) | 93 (37) | |
| No health | 87 (59.2) | 71 (68.3) | 158 (63) | |
| Alcohol use | 0.015 | |||
| No | 85 (57.8) | 44 (42.3) | 129 (51.4) | |
| Yes | 62 (42.2) | 60 (57.7) | 122 (48.6) | |
| Tobacco usea | 0.766 | |||
| No | 139 (94.5) | 100 (96.1) | 239 (95.2) | |
| Yes | 8 (5.5) | 4 (3.9) | 12 (4.8) | |
| Physical activity | 0.407 | |||
| No | 57 (38.8) | 35 (33.6) | 92 (36.6) | |
| Yes | 90 (61.2) | 69 (66.4) | 159 (63.4) | |
| Started cooking more | 0.444 | |||
| No | 51 (34.7) | 41 (39.4) | 92 (36.6) | |
| Yes | 96 (65.3) | 63 (60.6) | 159 (63.4) | |
| Ordered more food by delivery | 0.984 | |||
| No | 85 (57.8) | 60 (57.7) | 145 (57.7) | |
| Yes | 62 (42.2) | 44 (42.3) | 106 (42.3) | |
| Negative mood changes | 0.833 | |||
| No | 49 (33.3) | 36 (34.6) | 85 (33.9) | |
| Yes | 98 (66.7) | 68 (65.4) | 166 (66.1) | |
| Practice of restrictive diets | <0.001 | |||
| No | 127 (86.4) | 69 (66.3) | 196 (78.1) | |
| Yes | 20 (13.6) | 35 (33.7) | 55 (21.9) | |
| Concern about weight gain | <0.001 | |||
| No | 82 (55.8) | 20 (19.2) | 102 (40.6) | |
| Yes | 65 (44.2) | 84 (80.8) | 149 (59.4) | |
| Body perception | <0.001 | |||
| Adequate | 38 (25.8) | 4 (3.9) | 42 (16.7) | |
| Inadequate | 109 (74.2) | 100 (96.1) | 209 (83.3) | |
| Body dissatisfaction | <0.001 | |||
| No | 33 (22.4) | 6 (5.8) | 39 (15.5) | |
| Yes | 114 (77.6) | 98 (94.2) | 212 (84.5) | |
| Intuitive eating – Total score b | 3.79 ± 0.74 | 3.68 ± 0.65 | 0.230 | |
| Intuitive eating – UPE Subscale c * | 3.83 ± 1.00 | 3.67 ± 1.00 | 0.156 | |
| Intuitive eating – EPR Subscale c * | 3.50 ± 1.37 | 3.13 ± 1.50 | <0.001 | |
| Intuitive eating – RHSC Subscale c * | 3.50 ± 1.33 | 3.00 ± 1.17 | <0.001 | |
| Intuitive eating – B-FCC Subscale c * | 3.67 ± 1.00 | 3.50 ± 1.00 | <0.001 | |
Chi-square test. aFisher’s exact test. bStudent t-test. cMann-Whitney test. *Data expressed as p50 ± interquartile range. In bold: statistically significant difference (p < 0.05). N = 251. 1N = 244. 2N = 235. B-FCC: Body-food Choice Congruence. EPR: Eating for Physical Rather than Emotional Reasons. RHSC: Reliance on Hunger and Satiety Cues. UPE: Unconditional Permission To Eat.