Este estudio analiza si se confirma el alto riesgo que tienen los estudiantes universitarios de sufrir trastornos alimentarios y su comorbilidad con los trastornos depresivos y de ansiedad. Se realiza una revisión sistemática buscando en bases de datos y se seleccionan 11 estudios científicos de 158 publicados entre 2013-2017. Se encuentra una relación positiva entre el trastorno de alimentación y la depresión, relacionado con una preocupación distorsionada del cuerpo, con insatisfacción corporal y excesiva preocupación por el peso. También señala la ansiedad como uno de los factores principales que predisponen a sufrir un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria. Los universitarios, especialmente mujeres, presentan riesgo de sufrir un trastorno de la ingestión de alimentos, acompañado con frecuencia de depresión y ansiedad.

The approach of the education in the university and not university contexts in which we are nowadays makes it necessary to change the methodologies and dynamics developed by teachers in the classroom. This work arises from the necessity of applying active methodologies to the training of university student, and also to the search for functionality and motivation in learning, having the use of instruments and tools with which the student becomes aware of his own teaching-learning process and fosters the critical spirit. The motivation to undertake this practice is raised by the concern to provide the student with skills to help them in their professional development. In the current article it is tried to verify to what extent these formative assessment dynamics influence the level of acquisition of the competences, both specific and transversal, of a subject of the Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Background: The passage through university, as a complex experience, can heighten personal susceptibility to eating disorders. The objective of this research is to determine how gender, age, year of course, and center or faculty can influence the risk of an eating disorder among university students. Method: A transversal and descriptive study with a probabilistic sample of 516 Spanish students from 26 university degrees is performed, by administering the Inventory Eating Disorder-Reference criterion (EDI-3-RF) to the students. Results: It was found that the female students enrolled in second-year grades presented a greater obsession with thinness and body dissatisfaction, that the male students did more physical exercise to control their weight, and that those under 20 years and the students from both the Health and Law Faculties presented greater bulimic behavior. Conclusions: It is necessary to implement preventive measures adapted to the university students.

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