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Jon Elorza Rodríguez
Introducción: La profesión de enfermería desempeña una función de suma relevancia en la modificación y promoción de hábitos de vida saludables, así como en la prevención de patologías asociadas a dichos hábitos. No obstante, la literatura científica presenta una escasez de estudios que aborden específicamente el impacto del nivel académico en enfermería sobre los hábitos de vida de los estudiantes.
Objetivos: Determinar el impacto que causa el grado de enfermería en los hábitos de vida de quienes lo estudian.
Metodología: Estudio observacional analítico, estudio de cohortes. Para las variables cuantitativas se repartieron diferentes cuestionarios; los alimentos ingeridos, el tiempo de ejercicio/actividad física realizados, el consumo de alcohol y otras substancias. Se realizaron la media y a continuación la prueba de T-student, suponiendo previamente que los resultados tenían una distribución simétrica.
Conclusiones: La mera participación en el programa de estudios de enfermería conlleva una mejora en los hábitos de vida de los estudiantes. Sin embargo, es importante señalar que dichos hábitos presentan ciertos aspectos no totalmente saludables, evidenciados por un consumo elevado de sustancias como alcohol y tabaco, así como una propensión al sedentarismo.
Introduction: The nursing profession fulfills a pivotal rolein modifying and advocating for healthy lifestyle habits, whilealso serving in the prevention of pathologies linked to suchhabits. Nonetheless, the scientific literature exhibits a paucity of studies directly examining the influence of academic at-tainment in nursing on students’ lifestyle behaviors.Objective: Ascertain the impact that the nursing degreehas on the lifestyle habits of its students.Methodology: Analytical observational study, cohortstudy. Various questionnaires were distributed for quantitativevariables; these included dietary intake, time spent on exer-cise/physical activity, alcohol consumption, and other sub-stance use. Means were calculated, followed by the applica-tion of the Student’s t-test, assuming beforehand that theresults had a symmetrical distributionResults: Ninety Nursing students from UPV, Leioa werestudied, with 60% in the first year and 40% in the fourth year.The average age for the first year was 21.7 years, and for thefourth year, it was 24.5 years. 83.3% of the sample were fe-male. The WHO questionnaire was used to measure healthself-assessment. 94.4% of the first year and 91.7% of thefourth year rated it as ‘excellent/very good’. Significant differ-ences were found in food and substance consumption.Intense exercise varied between 44.4% and 36.1% for thefirst and fourth years, respectively.Discussion: Nursing students’ lifestyle habits show roomfor improvement. There is an increase in the consumption ofharmful substances among fourth-year students. However,there is a positive trend towards improving diet quality andphysical activity among students. Conducting mindfulnessworkshops is suggested as a strategy to reduce the con-sumption of harmful substances in the future.Conclusions: Merely participating in the nursing curricu-lum leads to an improvement in the students’ lifestyle habits.However, it is important to note that these habits exhibit cer-tain aspects that are not entirely healthy, as evidenced by el-evated consumption of substances such as alcohol and to-bacco, as well as a tendency towards sedentary behavior.
