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Survey on extrinsic factors and skin condition and college majors' knowledge of antioxidants.
Author(s) -
Chang Hsin Pei,
Tam Chick F.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.21.5.a172-d
Subject(s) - health science , skin aging , psychology , medicine , gerontology , medical education , dermatology
OBJECTIVE: Examine college students' age, different lifestyle, eating habits, and their skin condition. In addition, determine whether knowledge of antioxidants was influenced by the participants' academic majors. Methods: Data were collected by questionnaires from 270 students in California State University, Los Angeles and in Taiwan. Results: Subjects with older skin had more facial wrinkles, undesirable symptoms, unsatisfied than those of subjects with younger skin. About lifestyles, participants who had less exercise tended to have more facial wrinkles. Participants who had more stress tended to have more skin disorders and lower self‐reported score for skin condition. About eating habits, participant drank more water tended to have less facial wrinkles. In regard to knowledge level of antioxidants, the majors in nutritional science had higher level of antioxidant knowledge than the majors in health science and in business and economics. CONCLUSION: Skin condition can be affected by extrinsic factors and knowledge level of antioxidants can be influenced by academic majors. Although knowledge of antioxidants for skin health had been publicized since early 20th century, yet participants included nutritional science majors can not identify antioxidants, ingredients and their natural sources correctly. Therefore, how to improve nutritional knowledge about antioxidants is very important for skin health.