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The Relationship of Disordered Eating Attitudes With Body Composition and Anthropometric Indices in Physical Education Students.

ABSTRACT: Abnormal eating behavior, unhealthy weight control methods, and eating disordered symptoms have risen among college students.The aim of this study was to examine disordered eating attitudes and their relationship with anthropometric and body composition indices in physical education students in Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan province, Iran.This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 physical education students, 105 males and 105 females aged 18 to 25, who were selected by systematic random sampling from physical education faculty of Tabriz University in Tabriz, Iran, in 2013. Eating attitude test (EAT-26) was used for the assessment of disordered eating attitudes. In addition, anthropometric and body composition indices were assessed.About 10% of the studied subject had disturbed eating attitudes; significantly more males (15.4%) reported an EAT-26 ≥ 20 (disordered eating attitudes) than females (4.8%) (P < 0.05). In males, the EAT-26 score was positively correlated with weist perimeter (WP) (r = 0.21, P < 0.05) and the waist-to-hip ratio (r = 0.26, P < 0.01). In females, the EAT-26 score was positively correlated with weight (r = 0.19, P < 0.05) and the WP (r = 0.28, P < 0.01). In females, weight (P < 0.05), body mass index (BMI) (P < 0.05), WP (P < 0.01), and waist-to-hip ratio (P < 0.05) were significantly different between disordered eating attitude and healthy subjects, while in males there was no significant difference between the two groups regarding the anthropometric and body composition indices.Abnormal eating attitude was notable among physical education students in Tabriz, Iran. It seems that some anthropometric indices such as BMI and central obesity indices were related to the increase of disordered eating attitude.

SUBMITTER: Rouzitalab T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4698139 | biostudies-other | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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The Relationship of Disordered Eating Attitudes With Body Composition and Anthropometric Indices in Physical Education Students.

Rouzitalab Tohid T Pourghassem Gargari Bahram B Amirsasan Ramin R Asghari Jafarabadi Mohammad M Farsad Naeimi Alireza A Sanoobar Meisam M

Iranian Red Crescent medical journal 20151114 11

<h4>Background</h4>Abnormal eating behavior, unhealthy weight control methods, and eating disordered symptoms have risen among college students.<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of this study was to examine disordered eating attitudes and their relationship with anthropometric and body composition indices in physical education students in Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan province, Iran.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 physical education students, 105 ma ...[more]

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