Relationship between Nutrition Education and Dietetics Students’ Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors

Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors of Dietetics Students

“…3,16,18 Resultant themes of qualitative studies also suggested that more courses in nutrition lead to improved eating attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors in dietetics students. 8,20 Therefore, the results of the present study support that nutrition education may improve eating attitudes and behaviors in dietetics students. However, it is not known what specific education or knowledge is influential in improving eating attitudes and behaviors.…”

“…This finding was comparable with results from other studies. 3,10,16,18 In one study, 20 a strong correlation was found between fewer nutrition courses and higher disordered eating scores. Likewise, it has been reported that students in the first year of their dietetics programs have higher disordered eating scores than students who are in subsequent years of their education.…”

“…12,18 While the majority of research has used the EAT-26 to identify disordered eating, the Eating Disorder Inventory and the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory have also been used. 19,20 Little research has investigated disordered eating patterns of American dietetics students, associations of nutrition education and disordered eating, and differences in disordered eating between dietetics and nursing students. Examining disordered eating attitudes and behaviors of dietetics students is of immense benefit to the dietetics profession.…”

Body Dissatisfaction, Distorted Body Image and Disordered Eating Behaviors in University Students: An Analysis from 2017–2022

“…DEB prevalence (25–38.3%) was higher than those reported by a university in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico (17.1%) [ 28 ], and lower than that reported for Bachelor in Nutrition students (36.7%) [ 27 ]. The differences found in the prevalence of our samples compared to others reported for Mexican university students might have been due to the fact that the risk of presenting DEBs has been reported to vary among careers and school semesters [ 27 , 29 ]. Therefore, the prevalence could change according to the careers that each university offers studies towards and which were included in the analysis, as well as the semester distribution of samples.…”

“…There were significant associations for the probability of developing DEBs in the presence of Body Dissatisfaction during almost all the years of study, mainly in the first school year. The specific association between DEBs and BD stratified by school year has not been studied previously; however, the association between BD and school year was studied in [ 29 ] (REF). The transition during the first year of university generated vulnerability for the presence of DEBs in students in [ 39 ].…”