Physical activity and academic stress in students of health sciences of a university of Cajamarca.

• Autores: Salazar-Vásquez, A.E., Vásquez-Benavides, L.G., Vásquez-Herrera, J.F., Leyva-Chávez, M.A., Saavedra-Alvarado, T.W., Barrera-Benavides, L.G.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca
• Repositorio: UNC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unc.edu.pe:20.500.14074/9520
• Enlace del recurso: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14074/9520; https://doi.org/10.56294/hl202282
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Academic Stress; Health Sciences; Physical Activity; Students; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.03.01

Introduction: entering university exposes young people to circumstances of academic stress (AS), a state of tension that affects students and can cause a decrease in physical activity (PA), defined as any body movement. Previous research has shown that a lack of PA is associated with higher levels of AD. Objective: analyze the relationship between physical activity and academic stress in health sciences university students in the city of Cajamarca 2024. Method: a non-experimental cross-sectional study was carried out. The sampling was simple random probabilistic, involving fourth-year health sciences students. The Systemic Cognitivist Inventory to study academic stress (SISCO) and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) were used. Results: of the 85 participants, 58,8 % were women. 38,8 % of the sample reported doing moderate physical activity, in addition, 90,6 % of the students presented some level of stress, highlighting moderate EA with 48,2 %; 9,2 % did not manifest AE levels. Conclusions: an inverse relationship was found between physical activity and academic stress in the sample studied. Those with low PA presented higher levels of EA. Furthermore, the female sex (58,8 %) showed a higher prevalence of some level of academic stress.