Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ()

Quality of life and eating attitudes of health care students

  • Daniela Galdino Costa,
  • Cíntia Tavares Carleto,
  • Virgínia Souza Santos,
  • Vanderlei José Haas,
  • Rejane Maria Dias de Abreu Gonçalves,
  • Leila Aparecida Kauchakje Pedrosa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0224
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 71, no. suppl 4
pp. 1642 – 1649

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ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the quality of life and eating attitudes of health care students of the undergraduate programs of a public university. Method: Observational, cross-sectional, and quantitative study performed in a federal university. Three questionnaires were used for data collection: a socio-demographic and academic, the WHOQOL-BREF and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26). Result: 399 students participated in this study, most women, average age of 22 years, average scores of EAT-26 of 15.12 and quality-of-life averages above 60 points in all domains. The students of the undergraduate program in Nutrition presented more inappropriate eating attitudes than other health care students; as the age evolves, vulnerability to inadequate eating attitudes increases; and the family income influenced negatively the quality of life in Physical and Social domains. Conclusions: Inadequate eating attitude diminishes the quality of life of health care students in all domains of the WHOOQOL-BREF.

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