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Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study
Nutrition knowledge acquired in college students may not only help in promoting an adequate diet, but also lead to excessive preoccupation with healthy eating, which is referred to as orthorexic behaviors. This study aimed to assess the relationship between nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orth...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287165 |
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author | Plichta, Marta Jezewska-Zychowicz, Marzena |
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description | Nutrition knowledge acquired in college students may not only help in promoting an adequate diet, but also lead to excessive preoccupation with healthy eating, which is referred to as orthorexic behaviors. This study aimed to assess the relationship between nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors among college students of food and nutrition majors. Data were collected from a sample of 131 college students through a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study conducted from 2018 to 2021. The participants were asked to complete the ORTO-6 questionnaire, the nutrition knowledge test “GAROTA”, and the Beliefs and Eating Habits Questionnaire (KomPAN). The results indicated that students’ preoccupation with healthy eating (orthorexic behaviors score) during the study period did not change, in contrast nutrition knowledge and diet quality increased. There was no correlation between the orthorexic behaviors score and the nutrition knowledge score, both at the beginning and end of the study. At the beginning of the study, the orthorexic behaviors score correlated positively with “Pro-Healthy Diet Index” and “Diet-Quality Index”, and inversely with “Non-Healthy Diet Index”. However, at the end of the study, no significant correlations were observed between these variables. It can be concluded that nutrition knowledge determined positively the quality of the diet of students in food and nutrition majors, while did not affect the occurrence of orthorexic behaviors. |
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spelling | pubmed-102666202023-06-15 Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study Plichta, Marta Jezewska-Zychowicz, Marzena PLoS One Research Article Nutrition knowledge acquired in college students may not only help in promoting an adequate diet, but also lead to excessive preoccupation with healthy eating, which is referred to as orthorexic behaviors. This study aimed to assess the relationship between nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors among college students of food and nutrition majors. Data were collected from a sample of 131 college students through a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study conducted from 2018 to 2021. The participants were asked to complete the ORTO-6 questionnaire, the nutrition knowledge test “GAROTA”, and the Beliefs and Eating Habits Questionnaire (KomPAN). The results indicated that students’ preoccupation with healthy eating (orthorexic behaviors score) during the study period did not change, in contrast nutrition knowledge and diet quality increased. There was no correlation between the orthorexic behaviors score and the nutrition knowledge score, both at the beginning and end of the study. At the beginning of the study, the orthorexic behaviors score correlated positively with “Pro-Healthy Diet Index” and “Diet-Quality Index”, and inversely with “Non-Healthy Diet Index”. However, at the end of the study, no significant correlations were observed between these variables. It can be concluded that nutrition knowledge determined positively the quality of the diet of students in food and nutrition majors, while did not affect the occurrence of orthorexic behaviors. Public Library of Science 2023-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10266620/ /pubmed/37315087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287165 Text en © 2023 Plichta, Jezewska-Zychowicz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Plichta, Marta Jezewska-Zychowicz, Marzena Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
title | Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
title_full | Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
title_short | Nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in Polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
title_sort | nutrition knowledge, diet quality and orthorexic behaviors in polish students–a pre-post repeated cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287165 |
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