%0 Journal Article %T UTILIZACI¨®N DEL TIEMPO LIBRE DE ESTUDIANTES DEL ¨¢REA DE SALUD DE LA INSTITUCI¨®N EDUCACIONAL SANTO TOMAS, TALCA %A LEMP PAREDES %A MARTA %A BEHN THEUNE %A VERONICA %J Ciencia y enfermer¨ªa %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0717-95532008000100007 %X it is a descriptive, cross-sectional and correlative study, in which the use of leisure time of the students from santo tom¨¢s educational institute in talca, is analyzed. these are students from careers of the health ¨¢rea: nursing, kinesiology, nurses aid technician and laboratory odontology technician. the primary source of information was obtained through the appli cati¨®n of an inquiry, on june 6,2006. the number of compiled data was of 494. there was a descriptive and correlative analysis, contingency tables and anova. results show that the kind of activities students do, are sedentary. watching tv and sleeping are the activities they do most in their free time. in general, men have more free time than women. those students who drink more alcoholic drinks have even more free time than the rest. university students ded¨ªcate more time to their studies than those students of technologic careers, who ded¨ªcate more time to job to get a salary. %K health promotion %K healthy life style %K free time. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-95532008000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en