PREVALENCE OF ORTHOREXIA NERVOSA AND ITS RELATIONS WITH HEALTH LITERACY IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 166 - 175, 14.05.2019

Erkan Pehlivan , Burak Mete , Betül Fırıncı Esra Doğan

https://doi.org/10.35232/estudamhsd.500538

Cited By: 6

Abstract

Eating
disorders are more common among young people. Orthorexia nervosa is known as a
nutritional obsession that has not yet been classified but has been considered
as eating disorder. The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of
orthorexia among university students and to examine its relationship to health
literacy. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 1014 university students.
The students were randomly selected by stratified cluster sampling method and
the questionnaire covering the demographic characteristics of the students with
ORTO-15 scale and the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU) were applied
under observation. SPSS 22 were used to analyze the data. The prevalence of
ortorexia was 12.2% (12.6% for male, 12.0% for female). 80% of them were found
to have inadequate health literacy. Those having a low level of health literacy
also received a low score on the ORTO-15 scale. It was observed that orthorexia
was more common among people who had regular sports and doctor-dietician as
information source. The frequency of orthorexia was found to be 12% in this
study. It was found that orthorexia was higher among the regular sportsmen and
those who got information from doctors and dieticians. Moreover, it can be said
that the increase in the level of health literacy is at a low level of
protection from orthorexia

Keywords

Feeding and eating disorders, health literacy, students

ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNDE ORTOREKSİYA NERVOZA YAYGINLIĞI VE SAĞLIK OKURYAZARLIĞI İLE İLİŞKİSİ

Abstract

Amaç:
Gençlerde
yeme bozuklukları sık görülmektedir. Henüz yeme bozukluğu olarak
sınıflandırılmamış ortoreksiya nevroza sağlıklı beslenme takıntısı olarak
bilinir. Bu çalışmanın amacı üniversite öğrencilerinde ortoreksiya sıklığını
saptamak ve sağlık okuryazarlığı ile ilişkisini tespit etmektir.

Gereç
ve Yöntem: Kesitsel tipte olan bu çalışma 1014
öğrenci üzerinde yapılmıştır. Öğrenciler tabakalı küme örnekleme yöntemi ile
seçilmiştir ve gözlem altında uygulanan anket; sosyodemografik bölüm, ORTO-15
ölçeği ve Sağlık Okuryazarlığı ölçeklerinden oluşmaktadır. Verilerin analizinde
SPSS 22 kullanılmıştır.

Bulgular:
Öğrencilerde
ortoreksiya sıklığı %12.2 (erkelerde %12.6, kadınlarda 12.0) olarak
bulunmuştur. Öğrencilerin %80’i yetersiz sağlık okuryazarıdır. Düşük düzeyde
sağlık okuryazarlığı olanlar  ORTO-15 ölçeğinden
düşük puan almışlardır (p = 0.001). Düzenli spor yapanlarda ve beslenme
konusunda uzmanlardan bilgi alan kişilerde ortoreksiya eğiliminin daha fazla
olduğu görülmüştür.

Sonuç:
Bu
çalışmada ortoreksiya sıklığı %12 olarak bulunmuştur. Ortoreksiya düzenli spor
yapanlarda, doktor ve diyetisyenlerden bilgi alanlarda daha fazladır. Ayrıca
sağlık okuryazarlığının ortoreksiyadan düşük seviyede koruyucu olduğu
söylenebilir.

Keywords

Beslenme bozuklukları, sağlık okuryazarlığı

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