Estilos de vida y salud en estudiantes universitarios: la universidad como entorno promotor de la salud

Abstract

In this study we pretend to know and analyse the lifestyles of the Balearic Islands University students. So, we have designed and validated an instrument to assess the lifestyle and health status of university students (questionnaire ESVISAUN). Among the obtained results we emphasize that ESVISAUN questionnaire can be considered a valid and reliable instrument to identify healthy lifestyles and health problems in order to design interventions in the context of health promotion in the university. The results confirm the idea that health behaviours should not be considered in isolation from each other, since there is a tendency to clustering of risk factors like smoking, poor adherence to the Mediterranean diet and physical inactivity among university students. Finally, with these data we have raised a number of implications for intervention and research ambits.