Nutrition status and its relationship with depression in students of the Veracruz University

Recent research reports that depression and anxiety are on the rise, 3 out of 5 young Mexicans experience depressive symptoms and 62% declare they have some type of anxiety, these conditions are related to obesity and overweight, a situation observed in another study with undergraduate students in nutrition of the Veracruzana University. Objective: To diagnose nutritional status and its relationship with depression in Nutrition students, enrolled in the period February/July 2020. Type of study: observational, cross-sectional, analytical, data was collected through a digital survey. Results: Depression was found both in students with malnutrition, overweight, obesity and students with normal nutritional status according to Body Mass Index (BMI), being the subjects with obesity those who presented severe depression. Conclusions: Depressive syndrome was present in most of students with different nutritional status classification, with a higher prevalence in women.