Sleep practices and use of leisure time as factors associated with the body fat percentage in university students
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sleep habits, body composition, adipose tissue, students, exerciseAbstract
Introduction: from a nutritional perspective, body fat percentage is a determining factor for health, as it denotes a person’s body composition and is related to the existence of chronic illnesses. Objective: to evaluate sleep habits and the use of free time as possible factors associated with body fat percentage among the university students. Methodology: through a cross-sectional quantitative study constructed upon the analysis of secondary sources. We performed univariate analysis to describe the sociodemographic characteristics and bivariate analysis to determine an association between the two through the use of the Chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact test. Results: we analyzed data collected from 194 participants, who had a median age of 19 years old (IQR=3), from which 87% were women. More than half performed some kind of physical activity (72%), regularly used the internet, and slept 7 hours (60%). Most of the male participants showed body fat percentages considered to be low, while 35% of the females presented an excessive body fat percentage, being this one the most common category for this group. Conclusion: the only factor of interest that we were able to associate in a significant matter with body fat percentage was the “sleeps well” variable, thus showing that most sleep habits and the use of free time were not associated with body fat percentage among students.
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