ASSOCIATIVE CHRONOBIOLOGICAL STUDY BETWEEN WELL-BEING AND ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT IN ECOREGIONS OF JUJUY?S PROVINCE, IN THE WINTER SEASON

GONZALES POMA E.; HERNANDEZ DE BORSETTI, N

BIOCELL

INST HISTOL EMBRIOL-CONICET

Lugar: tucuman; Año: 2023 vol. 47 p. 11 - 11

0327-9545

Jujuy province has four differentiated ecoregions due to the altitudinal and topographic gradient, with an approximate range of 400?6000 meters above sea level, generating a variety of environments to which the human populations distributed in it are exposed. This work aimed to study the association between the altitude variable and the well-being, in three of the most representative populations of the upper ecoregions in the winter season (2021?2022), hypothesizing that altitude influences the well-being of people. For this purpose, 70 individuals of neutral chronotype were studied, generating a four-dimensional profile (physical health, mental health, social relations, and environment) and two items on the perception of life?s quality and personal health, through the standardized questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF (W-B) for showing psychometric resolution in previous research. The statistical analysis consisted of simple correlation and linear regression. The results of the analysis presented a clear association between the analyzed variables (altitude and mean W-F values, well-being) showing, for Pearson?s simple linear correlation coefficient t = −0.977, and for the coefficient of determination (R2) = 0.955. The trend for the four-dimensional profile from the rest of the variables studied accompanies these results, adjusting to expected according to chronobiological models. Therefore, there is a clear association with the altitude profile. The data from the next summer season will be completing this chronobiological study.