Drug use of anti-anxiety and nutritional status college students

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Maria da Cruz Moura e
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Ágatha Crystian Silva de, Araújo , Aretha Matos de, Muniz , Vivianne Ramos da Cunha, Nascimento, Ayla Patrícia Soares do, Martins , Maria do Carmo Carvalho e
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/23254
• topic: Students; Anti-anxiety agents; Nutritional status; Anxiety.; Estudiantes; Ansiolíticos; Estado nutricional; Ansiedad.; Estudantes; Ansiolíticos; Estado nutricional; Ansiedade.

Anxiolytic drugs are drugs that act on the central nervous system producing changes in behavior, mood and cognition. The prevalence of the use of these drugs among young individuals has increased more and more and this is reflected in the university environment, where the use of these substances is widespread. The present study aimed to identify the prevalence of the use of anti-anxiety agents among college students in the city of Teresina-PI and its relation with nutritional status. This is across-sectional study with 665 college students, who filled out a questionnaire to identify the us e of anti-anxiety agents and underwent anthropometric measure men to height and weight to determine nutritional status. The associations among the different variables were made through the use of the chi-square test (p <0,05). The use of anti-anxiety agents was referred to by 8,4% of the students, from which most where women, while 76,7% of these cases corresponded to medical prescription. The most common drugs were diazepam (51,8%) and clonazepam (12,5%). Regarding the nutritional status, 81,8% were eutrophic. The prevalence of use of anti-anxiety agents was high among college students. However, there was no association between their use and the nutritional status, suggesting that these drugs seem not to interfere in the nutritional status.