Comparación de la calidad de vida en estudiantes universitarios según nivel de actividad física / Comparison of quality of life in university students with different levels of physical activity
Estudio descriptivo, transversal. Participaron 126 estudiantes universitarios de ambos sexos de las facultades de salud, educación e ingeniería de tres universidades de Talca (Chile). La CV fue evaluada mediante el cuestionario WHOQOL-BREF. Se aplicó la t de student para muestras independientes para comparar los dominios de la CV y las características basales entre los grupos. El tamaño del efecto se calculó con la d de Cohen.
Resultados:
Los universitarios inactivos presentaron mayor índice de masa corporal (IMC) (p=0,041), en contraste, los universitarios activos mostraron una puntuación significativamente mayor que los inactivos en CV global (p=0,002; d=0,67), CV en salud (p=0,013; d=0,50), dominio físico (p=0,038; d=0,43), psicológico (p=0,003; d=0,63) y medio ambiente (p=0,001; d=0,80).
A descriptive, cross-sectional study that included 126 universitystudents of both sexes from Health, Education and Engineering programs of three universities in Talca (Chile). The QL was assessed through the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. A student's t-test of independent samples was used to compare both the domains of the QL and the baseline characteristics between the groups. The effect size was calculated with Cohen's d.
Results:
Inactive universitystudents had a higher body mass index (BMI) (p=0.041). In contrast, active students showed significantly higher scores than inactive ones in overall QL (p=0.002; d=0.67), health QL (p=0.013; d=0.50), physical domain (0.038; d=0.43), psychological domain (p=0.003; d=0.63) and environment domain (p=0.001; d=0.80).
Conclusions:
Active universitystudents (with moderate and high PA levels) have better overall and health QL. They also have better QL scores in the physical, psychological and environmental domains when compared to inactive students.