Kundu, Satyajit and Rejwana, Najneen and Al Banna, Md. Hasan and Kawuki, Joseph and Ghosh, Susmita and Alshahrani, Najim Z. and Dukhi, Natisha and Kundu, Subarna and Dey, Rakhi and Hagan, John Elvis and Nsiah-Asamoah, Christiana Naa Atsreh and Malini, S. S. (2022) Linking Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms with Diet Quality of University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India. Healthcare, 10 (10).
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Abstract
This study examines the association of depressive and anxiety symptoms with diet quality among university students while controlling for different demographic and other health and lifestyle factors. This cross-sectional study was carried out between April 2021 and June 2021 among a total of 440 (unweighted) university students. Diet quality was assessed using a 10-item mini-dietary assessment index tool. The depressive and anxiety symptoms of participants were measured using the validated Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) scale, respectively. Multivariable logistic regression and mediation analyses were performed. In this study, 61.1 (95 CI: 56.6 to 65.7) of university students’ diet quality was good during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being a post-graduate student, an urban resident, having no depressive (AOR = 2.15, 95 CI: 1.20 to 3.84) and anxiety symptoms (AOR = 1.96, 95 CI: 1.07 to 3.59), no changes or improvement in appetite, and no changes in sleep duration were significantly associated with good diet quality among our study participants. Depressive and anxiety symptoms during COVID-19 had a significant effect on the diet quality of university students. Future public health policies need to be focused on improving the mental health and well-being of students particularly during pandemic situations to enhance their diet quality.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | anxiety; COVID-19; depression; diet quality; India; university students |
| Subjects: | B Life Science > Genetics and Genomics |
| Divisions: | Department of > Genetics and Genomics |
| Depositing User: | C Swapna Library Assistant |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2023 10:36 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2023 10:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/17515 |
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