Publications by authors named "Bruna Carolina Rafael Barbosa"
Sociodemographic, economic, and academic factors linked with resilience in university students during covid-19 pandemic: a Brazilian cross-sectional study.
BMC Psychol
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- Resilience is essential for students' mental health and helps them adapt to academic challenges, but there's limited understanding of how it varies among students in different fields of study in Brazil.
- A multi-center study surveyed 8,650 undergraduate students across eight institutions, using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale to measure resilience and various demographic, economic, and academic factors as independent variables.
- Findings indicated that lower resilience was linked to factors like being female, having low family income, and being from specific academic backgrounds, with an average resilience score of 19.86 out of a possible higher score.
Isotemporal substitution analysis of time between sedentary behavior, and physical activity on sleep quality in younger adults: a multicenter study.
BMC Public Health
September 2024
Objective: To evaluate the effects of replacing time spent in sedentary behavior (SB) with moderate to vigorous physical activity on sleep quality in young adults.
Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study, carried out with students enrolled in undergraduate courses at universities in Brazil. Sleep quality was assessed using a question of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-brief) and classified as good or poor sleep quality.
Sedentary behavior is associated with the mental health of university students during the Covid-19 pandemic, and not practicing physical activity accentuates its adverse effects: cross-sectional study.
BMC Public Health
July 2024
Background: Movement behaviours, such as sedentary behavior (SB) and physical inactivity, have become a public health issue due to their implications for physical and mental health. The literature indicates that the university environment influences the movement behaviors of university students, and the strategies adopted during the pandemic may have favored a decrease in the practice of physical activity and an increase in the time dedicated to SB in this population. We aimed to evaluate the association of SB and moderate to vigorous leisure-time physical activity (MVPA) with presence of symptoms of mental disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The university years are a critical period for young adults, as they are more exposed to obesogenic behaviors and experience stressful situations that compromise their mental health. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms and evaluate the association between the combined occurrence of obesogenic behaviors among university students.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on students from a public university in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to compare the quality of life (QOL) and mental health symptoms (depression, anxiety, and stress) among healthcare students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- - Results showed significant increases in severe depression, moderate anxiety, and moderate stress among students during the pandemic, along with a decline in QOL, especially in social relationships.
- - The findings indicate that healthcare students experienced a notable decline in both mental health and quality of life due to the pandemic.
Background: The university context plays an important role in the health-disease process since students are potentially vulnerable to obesogenic behaviors that can influence long-term health.
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of and factors associated with the co-occurrence of obesogenic behaviors among university students.
Design And Setting: This was a cross-sectional study at a Brazilian public university.