Open AccessThe relationship between social media use, eating attitude and body mass index among nutrition and dietetic female students: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Şule Aktaç,
Dicle Kargın,
Fatma Güneş
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista española de nutrición humana y dietética/revista española de nutrición humana y dietética
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.139
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2174-5145
pISSN - 2173-1292
DOI - 10.14306/renhyd.25.1.1094
Subject(s) - body mass index , social media , cross sectional study , psychology , mass media , positive attitude , significant difference , test (biology) , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , advertising , pathology , political science , law , business , biology , paleontology
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between media using habits, frequency and duration, and body mass index on eating attitudes. Material and methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted with female students who received nutrition and dietetics education in Istanbul. A questionnaire consisting of a socio-demographic questionnaire, Eating Attitude Test (EAT-40), and Social Media Attitude Scale was applied to 1248 female volunteers by the face-to-face interview method.Results: It was found that 35.7% of the participants had abnormal eating attitudes and 89.6% showed a positive attitude towards social media. 93.7% of the group with abnormal eating attitudes indicated a positive attitude towards social media, 0.4% had a negative attitude and the difference was statistically significant (p=0.001). It was observed that a significant difference between EAT-40 and thought of an eating problem, having a social media membership, and spending time on social media (p<0.05).Conclusions: Social media have an effect on nutrition dietetics students on abnormal eating attitude; it did not show a significant effect on BMI.