RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND EATING

HABITS WITH STRESS IN
ADOLESCENTS OF A PRE-
UNIVERSITY ACADEMY IN VILLA EL
SALVADOR 2016
ENGLISH IV
 Stress is an important factor that has triggered multiple
diseases in recent years and should be treated as a public
health problem.

It occurs when the person is under some extreme pressure or

the interaction with the environment disturbs their
emotional balance.
Introduction
Adolescents are vulnerable to changes in psychological and
physiological health.

Stress is the main cause of problems in eating habits and

nutritional status that influence unhealthy lifestyles and poor
health.
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Objectives
Parts of an
abstract Methods

Results

Conclusion
 To determine the relationship
between nutritional status and
Objectives eating habits with Stress in
Adolescents of a Pre-University
Academy in Villa el Salvador 2016.
 Design:
Quantitative, descriptive, observational, cross-sectional cross-association study.

Place:
Pre-university Academy in Villa El Salvador.

Methods Participants:
84 adolescent students of both sexes whose ages are between 15 and 19 years. They
were evaluated anthropometrically and applied the questionnaires of eating habits
and stress.

Statistical analysis:
The information processing and statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS
v21 program.
 Statistically significant
associations were found between
There is a tendency for teenagers
stress and the variable eating
who have inadequate eating
habits; therefore, there was a
habits to suffer from a greater
tendency for adolescents with
degree of stress.
moderate or severe stress to
have inadequate food intake.

Results

Stress periods influence the

choice, behavior and
consumption of unhealthy foods.
 Adolescents do not eat or if
The adolescents with the they eat they do it without
highest degree of stress control, and this leads to
present excess weight. malnutrition due to excess or
deficit

Results
According to Marcos Pereyra
(2010) stress has a
biobehavioral mechanism
that promotes obesogenic or
thinness eating behaviors
and, ultimately, malnutrition.
 There was a relationship
between stress and eating A significant relationship was
habits, which is why there is a found between stress and eating
trend that the highest habits, as well as the relationship
percentage of severely stressed between stress and the Body
adolescents have an inadequate Mass Index.
level of eating habits.

Conclusions A relationship was found

between the variables
stress and nutritional
status, through the
indicator Body Mass
Index, which is why there
is a tendency for
adolescents with
moderate or severe
stress to be overweight.
 Stress

Body Mass Index

Key words
Food Habits

Adolescents
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