Maciel, Bruna Leal LimaGalvão, Liana Letícia Paulino2024-04-032024-04-032023-12-14GALVÃO, Liana Letícia Paulino. Qualidade da dieta e fatores associados em estudantes universitários durante a pandemia de Covid-19: estudo multicêntrico BRAZUCA-covid. Orientadora: Dra. Bruna Leal Lima Maciel. 2023. 96f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde) - Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/58006Diet quality plays a fundamental role in promoting health and preventing disease. A healthy diet is associated with benefits such as reduced risk of chronic diseases, and considers different cultural and lifestyle contexts, individual needs, and physical and mental health conditions. Upon entering university, the undergraduates starting their adult lives face several transformations that affect their lifestyle. As a result, the stress associated with this period can influence the adoption of lifestyle habits that are not always appropriate, where one of the most significant changes occurs in the quality of food. Still, during the COVID-19 pandemic period and changes in students' lifestyles with the transition to remote learning and social distancing, may have caused changes in students' eating habits. Thus, assessing diet quality represents an important strategy to obtain information that can support the formulation of public health policies, especially in a health emergency context, as it enables the analysis of the different elements that make up individuals' dietary patterns. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the association between the quality of the diet of undergraduates from public institutions with sociodemographic characteristics, self-reported changes in weight, food insecurity, sleep duration and perceived stress in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. A descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was carried out, with data found between August 2020 and February 2021, through an online form, with undergraduate students from five Brazilian public universities, covering the five regions of Brazil. The questionnaire included socioeconomic variables (including race, family income and change in income during the pandemic) and validated tools (Diet Quality Scale, Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale, Perceived Stress Scale) and sleep duration, totaling 108 questions. For data analysis, the Chisquare test or the Kruskal-Wallis test was performed, and after that a logistic regression was performed to measure the association between the variables. 4,732 students participated in the research, with a median age of 22 years old, 66.1% of whom were female; 37.8% of students had some degree of food insecurity, and 74.3% had a high perception of stress. Regarding diet quality, 51.9% of students had good diet quality, however 8.6% and 1.3% of students had poor or very poor diet quality, respectively. Finally, it was possible to notice an association between poor or very poor diet quality and weight gain during the pandemic AOR = 1.56 (95% CI = 1.12 – 2.20) and moderate and high perceived stress AOR = 2.85 (95% CI = 1.71 – 4.74) of undergraduates. The study was published in the article published in the journal “Frontiers in Nutrition” entitled “Diet Quality and Associated Factors in Brazilian Graduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic”.Acesso AbertoComportamento alimentarAlterações do peso corportalInsegurança alimentarDuração do sonoEstresse percebidomasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE