Evaluation of anxiety and eating disorders in medical students at UNAERP from 2021 to 2022
Keywords:
Binge eating, Anxiety, Obesity, Binge eating disorder, Generalized anxiety disorderAbstract
Binge eating (BE) is characterized by an exaggerated intake of food in a short period of time and in an uncontrolled manner, but without the adoption of compensatory measures to prevent weight gain. Individuals with a history of eating disorder, in turn, tend to have a more anxious personality. It is known, however, that anxiety is a physiological emotional state as long as concerns do not occupy most of the individual's day, as in generalized anxiety disorders (GAD). In order to combat these obsessive anxious thoughts, the person chooses some escape measures, in most cases the psychological discharge is discharged in the pathological food intake.
Thus, as a common consequence of both disorders, there is a high risk of obesity, which has a negative impact on health and quality of life. In view of this, the present study aims to evaluate the comorbidity between both psychic disorders, targeting medical students from the University of Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP), so that with the results we can awaken interest in these areas of study and thus generate a health promotion and prevention, avoiding, for example, obesity that is highly prevalent in both pathologies and in addition, a risk factor for chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, which in addition to affecting the patient's quality of life is a threat socioeconomic status.
