Open AccessEating and Lifestyle of University Students During the Worldwide Covid-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
P. Snopek,
J. Bejtkovsky,
М. Popovičová,
M. Belovičová
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical social work journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2222-386X
pISSN - 2076-9741
DOI - 10.22359/cswhi_12_5_13
Subject(s) - covid-19 , czech , pandemic , psychology , meal , morning , affect (linguistics) , statistical analysis , test (biology) , demography , gerontology , medicine , sociology , mathematics , disease , statistics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , communication , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
Objective: The aim of this article was to find whether the global COVID-19 pandemic could affect eating habits in the form of breakfast as the first meal of the day, and whether due to the global COVID-19 pandemic there was achange in body weight in selected university students studying in the Czech Republic. Design:Structured anonymous online questionnaire survey Participans:Atotal of 628 university students studying in the Czech Republic (68.95% women; 31.05% men) mostly aged 20 to 29 (63.38%)Methods:Mathematical-statistical methods were used to ver- ify the established research questions, namely Pearson's chi- square test and to investigate the strength of the dependence - Cramer's V.Results and Conclusion:There is arelationship between reg- ular eating habits in the form of breakfast as the first morning meal of aday, before and during COVID-19 and gender and also the biological age of respondents. Furthermore, it was found that there is astatistically significant relationship be- tween the change in body weight during COVID-19 and gen- der, as well as the biological age of the respondents.