Estilos de vida de estudiantes de medicina durante la pandemia de 2020, en Venezuela. El aislamiento: ¿amigo o enemigo? Lifestyles of medical students during the 2020 pandemic, in venezuela. Isolation: friend or enemy?

Abstract

Objective: evaluate the lifestyle profile of medical students from different universities in Venezuela, according to sex, age group, university, region where they study, current college year, type of quarantine, number of times they leave per week, in the period from May to August 2020. Methodology: quantitative approach; comparative type, non-experimental and cross-sectional design, through the Lifestyle Profile questionnaire (PEPS-I) by Pender (1996) applied through Google Forms. Sample of 680 university students over 18 years of age of Medicine in Venezuela. Results: 73.5% of the sample was female and 26.5% male, age of 21.95 ± 2.5 years, the lifestyle score indicates 20.6% at high level, 75% medium, and 4.4 % low. Statistical significance was found when the average of lifestyles was related to the variables: university (p <0.001), study region (P <0.001), type of quarantine (P <0.038), and number of times the person leaves per week in quarantine (p = 0.0023). Conclusions: 3 out of 4 medical students in Venezuela have an average lifestyle. It was determined that the highest lifestyles correspond to students of the Universidad de Los Andes, students whose universities' branches are in the Andean region of the country, students who did not comply with quarantine and students who went out their homes more often; the latter explains that the quarantine has a negative effect on the student lifestyle.