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The examination of the relationship between nursing students' depression, anxiety and stress levels and restrictive, emotional, and external eating behaviors in COVID‐19 social isolation process
Author(s) -
Kalkan Uğurlu Yasemin,
Mataracı Değirmenci Duygu,
Durgun Hanife,
Gök Uğur Hacer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/ppc.12703
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , covid-19 , mental health , test (biology) , emotional eating , stress (linguistics) , psychiatry , medicine , eating behavior , disease , obesity , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics
Purpose This study was conducted to examine the relationship between students' anxiety, depression, stress levels, and emotional, external, restrictive eating behaviors in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) process. Design and Methods This study was conducted in included university involving 411 nursing students who completed the Personal Information Form, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale, and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire. Kruskal–Wallis Test, Mann–Whitney U test, and Spearman's correlation test were used to evaluate the data. Findings In the correlation between Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale subscale scores, and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire subscale scores, there was no significant relationship between only depression and restrictive eating. Practice Implications It was determined that the COVID‐19 pandemic process affected the mental health of nursing students and their eating behaviors.