Assessment of health behaviors among students of selected majors

Abstract

Leading a healthy lifestyle is one of the factors conditioning the efficiency of functioning and the ability of a person to perform chosen social roles. The lifestyle of students is conditioned by the burden of the educational process - time pressure, stress, distance between the university and the place of residence, little knowledge related to healthy lifestyle, etc. In the functioning of students, there are also behaviors that allow to relieve the mental and physical burden, therefore, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and others are included. Young age is conducive to entertainment activities, students participate in social and cultural events, which, combined with the process of education, causes exhaustion and even exhaustion of the body. The way of functioning of young people is extremely important, because the level of currently experienced stress, time pressure, are transient phenomena, while the effects caused by them may have long-term character. They may lead to the perpetuation of negative patterns (e.g. lead to the development of addictions, unhygienic lifestyle) or to the development of diseases caused by an inappropriate lifestyle (obesity, tumours, etc.). The study included students of three majors: economics, mechanics and physiotherapy.