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There is a growing debate on relations between health and quality of life, the dual approach of subjective parameters (well-being, happiness, love, pleasure, and personal fulfillment) and objectives, supported by basic needs and those related to economic and social development of a society. In health, in particular biomedical, external stressors of the day-to-day supplant the economic, because they lead to psychosomatic illnesses, still poorly understood.
Methods
This research was carried out between the years 2008-2011, in a Biomedicine Course, in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, aiming to identify the effects of external factors that may influence the well-being and health. The methodology was qualitative using personal interviews with a self-administered questionnaire. There were 90 volunteers (74% females). From previous research has been done further study, a case study with five students, and biochemical tests were performed with peripheral blood
Results
Hours of stage-work, sleep, alcoholics in the family, gastric crisis, costing studies and neglect of food factors were identified as the most stressful. Laboratory results showed that the lower expression TSH, resulting from increased expression of cortisol and high expression of T3 in 60% of them. This fact raised the consumption of oxygen, increased cell turnover, there was also a reduction in MCV (40%) and increased erythroid count.
Discussion
It was shown the close relationship between antioxidant effects of zinc with the loss of calcium, the stress effect on the metabolism and neglect associated with food. The use of "fast food", high-calorie and low nutrition, may had led to biochemical oxidative stress. In order to better monitor and follow the difficulties found in this study, some measures were adopted such as workshops providing lectures on education; focus on skills to better cope with stress, an educational booklet to elucidate students, distributed free, to mitigate the problems.