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Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Previous studies have investigated the effects of COVID-19 on the general population of college students. However, research evaluating the complex behavioral and psychological impact of the pandemic on both obese and underweight students is currently limited. We used data from a survey conducted fro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9491673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36164459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01334-x |
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author | Rezapour, Mahdi Ferraro, F. Richard Alsubaiei, Sabrina |
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description | Previous studies have investigated the effects of COVID-19 on the general population of college students. However, research evaluating the complex behavioral and psychological impact of the pandemic on both obese and underweight students is currently limited. We used data from a survey conducted from March to April 2020 across 2534 students enrolled in seven US universities. We examined whether the associations between taking various behaviors and being obese and underweight students are unidimensional, or varies based on various negative emotions, and their sociodemographic characteristics. Also, we checked whether emotions of obese and underweight groups are impaired, which consequently might impact taking various cautionary behaviors. The results highlight complex relationships between being obese and underweight students and other considered variables. For instance, despite the associated risk, it was found that obese students are associated with less fear, guilt and irritability due to the pandemic. However, those associations vary based on factors such as level of educations. In addition, while obese students are less likely to avoid a large group of people, the impact changes based on gender. Lack of precautions and emotions is despite the increased risk of hospitalization and death associated with obese and underweight groups. Finally, it was found that there are negative and stable associations between higher social class, income, and the lower likelihood of being obese or underweight. Significant differences and similarities were also found across factors to obese and underweight students. |
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spelling | pubmed-94916732022-09-22 Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Rezapour, Mahdi Ferraro, F. Richard Alsubaiei, Sabrina Humanit Soc Sci Commun Article Previous studies have investigated the effects of COVID-19 on the general population of college students. However, research evaluating the complex behavioral and psychological impact of the pandemic on both obese and underweight students is currently limited. We used data from a survey conducted from March to April 2020 across 2534 students enrolled in seven US universities. We examined whether the associations between taking various behaviors and being obese and underweight students are unidimensional, or varies based on various negative emotions, and their sociodemographic characteristics. Also, we checked whether emotions of obese and underweight groups are impaired, which consequently might impact taking various cautionary behaviors. The results highlight complex relationships between being obese and underweight students and other considered variables. For instance, despite the associated risk, it was found that obese students are associated with less fear, guilt and irritability due to the pandemic. However, those associations vary based on factors such as level of educations. In addition, while obese students are less likely to avoid a large group of people, the impact changes based on gender. Lack of precautions and emotions is despite the increased risk of hospitalization and death associated with obese and underweight groups. Finally, it was found that there are negative and stable associations between higher social class, income, and the lower likelihood of being obese or underweight. Significant differences and similarities were also found across factors to obese and underweight students. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022-09-21 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9491673/ /pubmed/36164459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01334-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Rezapour, Mahdi Ferraro, F. Richard Alsubaiei, Sabrina Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9491673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36164459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01334-x |
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