Stress and dietary behaviour among first-year university students in Australia: Sex differences

Papier, Keren; Ahmed, Faruk; Lee, Patricia Chiaotzu; Wiseman, Juliet

doi:10.1016/j.nut.2014.08.004

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“…As suggested by Papier et al (2015), the results show that 52.9% of participating students felt distressed and that both girls and boys consumed larger quantities of 'unhealthy' food (with higher fat and sugar) as a result. The preventive measure recommended to university students is an active lifestyle, the importance of which is acknowledged by most students; they are also aware of relevant health risks (consequences of smoking, alcohol, poor dietary habits and lack of physical activity).…”

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Attitudes Towards Stress And Lifestyle Of University Students In Health Education

Chrásková¹,

Zouharová²

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Shaping the attitudes to lifestyle in a holistic concept is included in all stages of education in the Czech Republic. The objective of the present research is to identify the attitudes of university students to concepts associated with bio-psycho-social aspects of lifestyle (including stress) and their development by year of study and gender. The research sample comprises students who will become teachers of subjects in the category of Health education and will thus deliberately influence the lifestyle of their students. Students' attitudes were measured by means of the ATER two-factor semantic differential (plus own questionnaire). The respondents were presented with concepts associated with both positive and negative aspects of lifestyle, self-conception and social relationships. The obtained data were used to develop a semantic space of the concepts. The differences between various groups were further compared by means of the Student's t-test and analysis of variance. The results suggest that the attitudes of students of Health education correspond with the aspects of an optimum lifestyle. A comparison of the attitudes by year of study and gender revealed differences only in some concepts. In both dimensions a statistically significant difference was observed in the concept Mental stress, which has poor evaluation and is energy demanding. The results demonstrated that the attitudes of students of Health education were consistent with the theoretical knowledge and the profile of a graduate from this field of study. The results also correspond with the content of the curriculum defined by the Czech curricular documents.

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Section: Lifestyle In University Studentsmentioning

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Attitudes Towards Stress And Lifestyle Of University Students In Health Education

Chrásková¹,

Zouharová²

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Conversely, the association has also been observed in the opposite direction, that is, stress has been found to be associated with poor food selection [12][13][14], but results are not always consistent [15,16]. In a recent study, we demonstrated that stress was associated with unhealthy food selection among university students, with stress being a more significant predictor of unhealthy food selection among male students [17]. Others have also shown that inadequate nutrition and poor diet quality were likely to be directly associated with mental health problems [10][11].…”

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“…In light of the rapid rise in mental health problem in young adults, an increasing body of literature has sought to examine prevalence of stress among university students [2][3][6][7]17,[24][25].Building on the previous studies, the present study focused on identifying the potential risk factors of stress among undergraduate university students attending an Australian University. This study found that sex, marital status, academic group, weekly working hours, frequency of exercise, overweight/obesity and dietary patterns were significant predictors of different levels of stress and thus indicating a complex relationship of various socio-demographic, health and behavioural factors with stress.…”

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Factors Associated with Stress among First-year Undergraduate Students Attending an Australian University

Ahmed¹

2016

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“…[11,12] Psychological distress among university students has frequently been associated with stress, which is also common among university students and more so for females than males. [13][14][15][16] Students have been found to be mostly worried about how they achieve in their academic studies, the stress of being successful in their studies and future plans post education. Further, psychological distress has been related to financial concerns and interpersonal relationships among university students.…”

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Designing and revising a cognitive behavioral group intervention for psychological distress among female university students

Bernharðsdóttir

Thome²,

Skärsäter³

et al. 2017

JNEP

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Background: Psychological distress in the form of depression and/or anxiety has been found to be common among university students, especially in females. Roughly one in five of Icelandic female university students exhibit elevated psychological distress, yet less than 30% of them do receive professional mental health care. To ameliorate the psychological distress a cognitive behavioral group therapy was designed to target the distress. The purpose of this paper is to describe the main steps in designing the respective intervention and the revisions made by the expert panel based on the validation of the preliminary intervention and the experience of the advanced practice psychiatric nurses therapists. Methods: The intervention design took place in four phases. Initially psychological distress was defined, secondly a literature review was conducted to see if there were effective interventions available to solve the problem. Thirdly the drafting of the intervention took place based on theory and evidence and finally the intervention was validated with quantitative and qualitative methods. The intervention was provided by two advanced practice psychiatric nurses in 4 sessions in groups of 5 to 8 females. An expert panel of 6 psychiatric nurses was formed to guide the intervention design, the delivery of the intervention and intervention validation. Results: The quantitative and qualitative validation of the preliminary intervention showed that psychological distress decreased and was acceptable to participants. Conclusions: The validation of the preliminary intervention provided the expert group with rationale for modifying the content and structure of the intervention in nine categories.

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Stress and dietary behaviour among first-year university students in Australia: Sex differences

Cited by 108 publications

References 35 publications

Attitudes Towards Stress And Lifestyle Of University Students In Health Education

Attitudes Towards Stress And Lifestyle Of University Students In Health Education

Factors Associated with Stress among First-year Undergraduate Students Attending an Australian University

Designing and revising a cognitive behavioral group intervention for psychological distress among female university students

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