ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2026
Adherence to healthy and sustainable diets and health-related behaviors in a Spanish online university setting.
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Background: Universities represent strategic environments for promoting healthy behaviors. Evaluating dietary quality and sustainability alongside other health-related factors is essential for developing health promotion strategies. Objective: This study aimed to assess adherence to diets based on the latest Spanish healthy and sustainable dietary guidelines, and to explore associations between diet, health-related behaviors, and sociodemographic characteristics among students and staff at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Methods: An online cross-sectional survey was conducted during the 2020-2021 academic year ( Results: Overall, many participants exhibited low PA, insufficient sleep, and elevated stress. Adherence to healthy and sustainable diet according to HEASUS was moderate (students: 5.9 ± 1.5; staff: 6.2 ± 1.4). Higher PA and active commuting were positively associated with HEASUS, while SB, male gender, and overweight status were inversely associated. Health-related factors showed stronger associations with HEASUS adherence at lower quantiles, indicating that unhealthy behaviors cluster and reinforce each other more strongly among those with poorer dietary adherence. Although females scored slightly higher on HEASUS, they reported greater stress, poorer sleep, and higher SB. Conclusion: Our findings underscore the importance of integrated, gender-sensitive strategies that jointly address diet quality, PA, sleep, and emotional well-being. Online universities represent an important setting for promoting both health and sustainability, especially through targeted actions that support a plant-rich, nutrient-dense dietary pattern, enhance emotional well-being, and encourage more active daily routines.
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