Asociación entre sobrepeso/obesidad y depresión en estudiantes de medicina

• Autores: Paredes Muñoz, Martin Abel, Reyes Chávez, Heber Jhunior Darwin
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
• Repositorio: UNITRU-Tesis
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:dspace.unitru.edu.pe:20.500.14414/16509
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14414/16509
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Depresión; Sobrepeso; Obesidad; Estudiantes de medicina

Depression is a mental disorder that affects people's quality of life just like obesity affects millions of people. A causal relationship between obesity and depression has been established, with diseases predisposing one to the other. Objective: To determine if there is an association between overweight / obesity and depression in medical students Materials and methods: A PQH-9 survey on depression was conducted with 235 students from the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Trujillo (UNT) and anthropometric measurements were performed. Results: The average age of the surveyed students was between 21-25 years, depression in this population group had a frequency of 66.8% and those with overweight / obesity was 52.34%. Conclusions: There is an association between overweight / obesity and depression, finding a Relative Risk of 1.32 with IC 95% [1.09-1.59].