The aim of this study was to compare behavioral parameters, generalized anxiety
disorder, nutritional status and food intake among beginning and almost ending health
graduation courses at a university in Belém, Pará, Brazil. This is a crosssectional
study with convenience nonprobabilistic sampling of students, of both sexes, entering
and almost graduating from all courses in the field of health at the Federal University
of Pará, willing to answer the survey's online questionnaire. Social, economic,
demographic aspects, as well as body mass index, smoking, consumption of alcoholic
beverages, physical activity, food intake and generalized anxiety disorder were
evaluated, among those entering and almost graduating from undergraduate health
courses. Descriptive statistics of the data were performed, as well as the Chisquare,
MannWhitney tests and binary logistic regression analysis, all with alpha at 5%. Was
found that almost graduated students were 6.3 times more likely to consume alcoholic
beverages (p = 0.000), and 1.3 times more likely to eat ultraprocessed foods (p =
0.047) than those entering undergraduate courses. For the other variables, there was
no statistically significant difference. Therefore, it can be seen that students who
almost completed health courses were more likely to consume alcoholic beverages
and ultraprocessed foods, compared to newcomers.
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