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Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)

(1) Background: The literature emphasizes the role of many factors influencing the onset of eating disorders (EDs) and their mutual influence on each other. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate and compare the prevalence of orthorexic behaviors in groups of health-related and non-health-related s...

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Autores principales: Grajek, Mateusz, Krupa-Kotara, Karolina, Sas-Nowosielski, Krzysztof, Misterska, Ewa, Kobza, Joanna
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35889771
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142816
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author Grajek, Mateusz
Krupa-Kotara, Karolina
Sas-Nowosielski, Krzysztof
Misterska, Ewa
Kobza, Joanna
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Krupa-Kotara, Karolina
Sas-Nowosielski, Krzysztof
Misterska, Ewa
Kobza, Joanna
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description (1) Background: The literature emphasizes the role of many factors influencing the onset of eating disorders (EDs) and their mutual influence on each other. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate and compare the prevalence of orthorexic behaviors in groups of health-related and non-health-related students in terms of their differential health behaviors—diet and physical activity levels. (2) The study included 300 individuals representing two equal groups of fields of study, which for the study were called the health-related field (HRF) and the non-health-related field (NRF). (3) Results: Based on the results of the dietary assessment, it was found that the best dietary model was characterized by the HRF group; in this group, 97.2% of students were characterized by a very good and good dietary mode. The NRF group, on the other hand, was dominated by a sufficient dietary mode for 64.4% of all cases in this group (94 people), while the dietary model marked as “good” was less popular, at 24.6% of this group (36 people). (4) Conclusions: Based on the cited self-research and information from the literature, it can be concluded that the problem of orthorexia is still a new issue at the level of social sciences, medical sciences, and health sciences. The psychometric tools used in this study allowed us to demonstrate the prevalence of the aforementioned eating disorders in the sample groups of students.
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spelling pubmed-93182892022-07-27 Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland) Grajek, Mateusz Krupa-Kotara, Karolina Sas-Nowosielski, Krzysztof Misterska, Ewa Kobza, Joanna Nutrients Article (1) Background: The literature emphasizes the role of many factors influencing the onset of eating disorders (EDs) and their mutual influence on each other. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate and compare the prevalence of orthorexic behaviors in groups of health-related and non-health-related students in terms of their differential health behaviors—diet and physical activity levels. (2) The study included 300 individuals representing two equal groups of fields of study, which for the study were called the health-related field (HRF) and the non-health-related field (NRF). (3) Results: Based on the results of the dietary assessment, it was found that the best dietary model was characterized by the HRF group; in this group, 97.2% of students were characterized by a very good and good dietary mode. The NRF group, on the other hand, was dominated by a sufficient dietary mode for 64.4% of all cases in this group (94 people), while the dietary model marked as “good” was less popular, at 24.6% of this group (36 people). (4) Conclusions: Based on the cited self-research and information from the literature, it can be concluded that the problem of orthorexia is still a new issue at the level of social sciences, medical sciences, and health sciences. The psychometric tools used in this study allowed us to demonstrate the prevalence of the aforementioned eating disorders in the sample groups of students. MDPI 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9318289/ /pubmed/35889771 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142816 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Misterska, Ewa
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Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)
title Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)
title_full Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)
title_fullStr Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)
title_short Prevalence of Orthorexia in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity (Silesia, Poland)
title_sort prevalence of orthorexia in groups of students with varied diets and physical activity (silesia, poland)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35889771
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142816
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