Estilos de vida nutricionales según modelo de Nola Pender en Estudiantes del área de Salud: Universidad de Pamplona.

Abstract

Introduction: Healthy eating patterns provide well-being to people. For this reason, inadequate nutrition, whether in excess or deficiency, becomes a risk factor for the appearance of diseases Objective: To determine the nutritional lifestyles of the students of the Faculty of Health of the University of Pamplona according to Nola Pender's model during the first period of 2022. Materials and methods: The "LIFESTYLES II - HPLPII" instrument was applied to 292 students of the Faculty of Health of the University of Pamplona, out of the 377 initially calculated. A recategorization technique was used to identify the nutritional lifestyles as adequate and inadequate. Results: It was observed that the response "Sometimes" prevailed in most of the items evaluated with respect to eating. Behaviors: It was possible to determine according to the results obtained from the HPLP II instrument supplied to the students of the health faculty of the University of Pamplona that 71.8% maintain unhealthy nutritional lifestyles, it was also possible to analyze that there is a significant statistical association between the variables of interest that are considered influential in terms of the low adoption of healthy nutritional habits of said population.