Hambre emocional en los estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil durante el año 2023 – 2024.

Abstract

Emotional hunger is an eating disorder; in the case of university students, stress and academic pressures can affect the relationship with food. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of emotional hunger in students of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. The research has a retrospective, quantitative, descriptive and observational cross-sectional approach, the sample was 153 students from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil, sociodemographic data were collected, 2 types of surveys were carried out: Garaulet Emotional Eating and Perceived Stress Scale. The results show that 67.32% are male and 32.68% are female, with an age range of 18 to 30 years. The analysis of the Garaulet Emotional Dining survey determined a prevalence of emotional hunger of 44 %; emotional and very emotional. The Perceived Stress Scale indicates that 97% suffer from stress from time to time. When obtaining these results we observed that occasional stress is a common experience among students. Concluding in this way that, various factors, including academic load and stress, influence the incidence of emotional hunger among students.