TY - JOUR
T1 - Association between diet, mental health and sleep quality in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Candia, Constanza Díaz
AU - Miranda, Camila Risco
AU - Durán-Agüero, Samuel
AU - Johns, Priscila Candia
AU - Díaz-Vásquez, Waldo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2023.
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Objectives: To evaluate recently published scientific evidence and synthesize the results of observational studies that examine the association between diet, mental health, and sleep quality in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Content: An electronic search of scientific literature published in 2021 and up to 2 years ago was performed using keyword search, with focus on observational studies published in PubMed, MEDLINE and Web of Science. It included: active university students of both sexes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Summary and Outlook: The 5 studies included in this review showed that there have been significant changes in both mental health and eating habits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conclusion, there is an association between mental health and sleep quality in university students, resulting in an alteration of sleep hours and poor sleep. Furthermore, an association between mental health and diet quality is also observed, producing an increase in caloric intake or in the number of meals during the day.
AB - Objectives: To evaluate recently published scientific evidence and synthesize the results of observational studies that examine the association between diet, mental health, and sleep quality in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Content: An electronic search of scientific literature published in 2021 and up to 2 years ago was performed using keyword search, with focus on observational studies published in PubMed, MEDLINE and Web of Science. It included: active university students of both sexes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Summary and Outlook: The 5 studies included in this review showed that there have been significant changes in both mental health and eating habits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conclusion, there is an association between mental health and sleep quality in university students, resulting in an alteration of sleep hours and poor sleep. Furthermore, an association between mental health and diet quality is also observed, producing an increase in caloric intake or in the number of meals during the day.
KW - COVID-19
KW - diet
KW - mental health
KW - sleep
KW - university students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85180079483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/ijamh-2023-0077
DO - 10.1515/ijamh-2023-0077
M3 - Review article
C2 - 38102886
AN - SCOPUS:85180079483
SN - 0334-0139
VL - 35
SP - 429
EP - 436
JO - International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
JF - International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
IS - 6
ER -
