CHANGE IN LIFESTYLE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DURING THE PANDEMIC

Abstract

The pandemic generated by the Covid 19 disease caused a change in the daily population's
activities due to the quarantine. In the case of higher education, the school routine was set on
different digital platforms by canceling face-to-face classes. Since then, the teaching and learning process has been organized for home and, with it, young people's lifestyles have
changed. This article displays the results from descriptive research of quantitative cut, to
know the changes generated in students between April 2020 to July 2021. A digital
quantitative instrument of 25 questions has been applied. It was separated into two
proportions: the first one before (March 2020) and during the pandemic (April 2020 to May
2021). The second one is in three activities: food, exercise, and rest. A factor analysis was
performed with a KMO of 0.971 and Cronbach's alpha of 0.949 as well. It was discovered
college students, had a not very healthy routine until March 2020 and this was accentuated
due to the period of quarantine and those were not positive or beneficial changes, because of
the sedentary lifestyle and social context.