Gender peculiarities of nutrition in students and their relationship with quality of life

Abstract

Objective. Nutritional peculiarities and their relationship with the quality of life’s (QoL) values were estimated in 38 students. Materials and methods. We evaluated the dietary peculiarities according to the results of our special questionnaire. The students used ten-point scale for answer questions. We have formed the two subgroups of the respondents according to the results of their answers: subgroup A (students whose answers were 5 points or less) and subgroup B (students whose answers were more than 5). We estimated QoL according to the SF-36 questionnaire. Results. Most of the respondents eat regularly the food containing plant fibers (76.3%) and the food with animal proteins (81.6%). Above mentioned dietary peculiarities correlates reliably with such QoL values as SF and BP in men and VT in women. 36,8% of respondents have breakfast irregularly, this nutritional peculiarity reduces reliably such QoL values as PF, GH and VT. The regularity of breakfasts correlates reliably with VT in men, and PF and GH in women. Dietary restriction of spicy, fatty, fried, smoked foods is observed in 36.8% of respondents; a negative reliable correlation of this nutritional peculiarity with RP has been revealed in women; possible positive effect of such kind of food on the QoL can be suggested. Conclusion. It is shown that there is a correlation between students’ eating habits and the quality of life. (For citation: Gonchar NV, Kalinicheva EO, Mustafaev EH, et al. Gender peculiarities of nutrition in students and their relationship with quality of life. Herald of North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov. 2018;10(2):73-78. doi: 10.17816/mechnikov201810273-78).