Depressão, compulsão alimentar e disturbios do sono em estudantes do terceiro ano do ensino medio e de cursos pre-vestibulares / Depression, alimentary compulsion and sleep disturbances in third-year intermediate students and students enrolled in courses for university entrance examination

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2010

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Adolescence is a period of transition marked by significant transformations in biochemical, physiological and psychosocial aspects, leading to anxiety and anguish, which consist in risk factors for the appearance of some type of disturbance. In this study, we verified the occurrence of symptoms of depression, eating compulsion and sleep disturbances in third-year intermediate students and students enrolled in courses for university entrance examination. This was a transversal and descriptive study comprising 529 students (241 males; 288 females) from seven public and private schools and two courses for university entrance examination located in a middle-class district in the city of São Paulo, in the age group of 16-19 years. The instruments used were: Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Questionnaire on Eating and Weight Patterns - Revised (QEWP-R) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The data analysis indicated a major percentage of depressive symptomatology in the group of females and among students of the courses. It was verified a major percentage of eating compulsion signs in students of private schools. Concerning sleep disturbances, they showed significant differences regarding the period of study, difficulty staying awake, subjective quality of sleep, latency, sleep duration, medication use, habitual sleep efficiency, daytime sleepiness, and number of people at home. There was an association between sleep disturbances and eating compulsion signs, as well as sleep disturbances and depressive symptomatology. We could conclude that there was an occurrence of depressive symptomatology, signs of eating compulsion and sleep disturbances

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