Rationale: The number of people with deviant body mass index (BMI) has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Disturbed eating habits associated with decreased physical activity (PA) result from psycho-emotional deviations.
Methods: The signs of restrictive, emotional and external eating habits should be revealed; the level of students PA is to be estimated. 144 students at the age of 17 and 23 were questioned; there were 127 female and 17 male respondents showing the total gender correlation at the university. EAT-26, DEBQ, PA, IPAQ and a specialized questionnaire ODA23+ were used.
Results: EAT-26 is a widely used screening of eating habits disorders. A high score means high probability of anorexia, bulimia and reveals “risk groups”. 15% of all respondents corresponded to the level of bulimia and binge eating. The Dutch questionnaire DEBQ revealed restrictive, emotional and external eating habits 2.6; 2.3; 3.2 respectively. All three indicators are increased. The level of restrictive eating habit varies from 1 to 5; emotional eating habits level varies from 1 to 5; and ineffective restrictive eating habit level is from 1.6 to 5. A questionnaire of PA revealed that it depends on the level of motivation. Thus 67% of respondents try or do intensive or moderate PA but not regularly; 19% are physically active; and 14% are physically inactive. IPAQ questionnaire helps reveal hypodynamia. We have estimated PA in a workplace, PA at home, PA in free time and sitting. 51% of respondents suffer from hypodynamia, 49% have no signs of hypodynamia. A specialized questionnaire ODA23+ has divided all the respondents into the groups according to their PA intensity. The respondents showed the following results: 0% - very low level of PA, 29.9% - low, 63.9% - moderate, 5.5% - high and 0.7% - very high. The results of BMI calculations show that 1% has deficient BMI, 18% insufficient BMI, 65% normal BMI, 13% overweight BMI, 2% obese BMI of the 1st class, and 1% obese BMI of the 2nd class.
Conclusion: Restrictive eating habits show little deviation of the coefficient from the referential meaning. It indicates that the cases of cognitive deviations are uncommon. Emotional and external eating habits have marked deviation from the referential meaning. It shows abnormality in behavioral and emotional spheres.
Disclosure of Interest: None declared.
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