Ana Flávia de Morais Oliveira|Joana Nobre|Henrique Luís|Luís Soares Luís|Núria Albacar-Riobóo|Lara Guedes de Pinho|Carlos Sequeira
Literacy and Mental Health of Portuguese Higher Education Students and Their Use of Health Promotion Strategies during Confinement in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre|Universidad Rovira i Virgili|Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre|Universidad Rovira i Virgili|Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre|University of Lisbon|Instituto Politécnico de Leiria|Instituto Politécnico de Leiria|Universidad Rovira i Virgili|University of Évora|Centre for Health Technology and Services Research
pandemic covid19 caused significant changes economies societies major impact entire education process however changes invalidate constant effort adaptation crosssectional descriptive correlational study used online questionnaire administered students various study cycles higher education institutions portugal aim exploring influence literacy mental health use mental health promotion strategies covid19 confinement total 329 students higher education institutions participated study mostly age group 1824 years n 272 827 female n 265 805 mentioned health promotion strategies period included studying n 170 517 physical activities n 151 459 social networking n 124 377 cooking activities n 120 365 listening music n 118 359 academic success selfreported weakly correlated mhi5 r 0103 p 0063 students pregraduate programs studied times pandemic used activity mentalhealthpromoting strategy statistically significant difference p 0033 although difficult improve health literacy related covid19 short period time strong motivation access understand evaluate communicate synthesize apply information knowledge maintain mental health selfcare using health promotion strategies