NUTRITIONAL BEHAVIOR PARTICULARITIES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS DURING DECLARED COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Abstract
Nutritional behavior is a thorough indicator of the students health status condition. The process of higher education, especially in a medical university, is characterized by a high intensity of academic setting. The category of medical students is very vulnerable to frequency of meal consumed, food composition and its amount. Additional impact on the diet of medical university students is caused by factors associated with the new coronavirus infection COVID-19: psycho emotional discomfort, information stress, implementation of new forms and methods of education, changes in labour and rest regimen. Our study is aimed to assess the diet of medical students and to reveal their patterns of eating habits, formed during the declared COVID-19 pandemic