Practices of university students related to health care: integrating review of literature
International Journal of Development Research
Practices of university students related to health care: integrating review of literature
Received 28th April, 2019; Received in revised form 19th May, 2019; Accepted 19th June, 2019; Published online 31st July, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Francisco Cezanildo Silva Benedito et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim of this study was to identify in the literature the practices carried out by university students related to health care. This is an integrative review of the literature, carried out in May 2019, in the Scopus databases, Web of Science, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (PubMed), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health (LILACS) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). The guiding question was: What are the practices performed by university students related to health care?. To do so, we used the descriptors controlled in English, "Student Health Services" and "Universities", and in Portuguese, "Health Services for Students" and "Universities". A total of 14,944 publications were available, which, after application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria and reading of title, abstract and complete article, remained 31. The analysis of the studies revealed that university students presented risk behavior regarding sexual issues and low adherence to physical activities. The self-medication and use of psychoactive substances were very prevalent practices in this population.
