Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5th International Clinical Nursing Research Congress, İstanbul, Türkiye, 5 - 08 Aralık 2024, ss.31-32, (Özet Bildiri)
Introduction: Perceived stress is closely associated with emotional eating, influencing individuals' dietary behaviors.
Aim: This study aimed to investigate some sociodemographic characteristics of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics students and their perceived stress levels on emotional eating behaviors.
Method: The study was conducted on the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics students of Istanbul Aydın University, Faculty of Health Sciences, between October 2023 and June 2024. The sample of this descriptive study was determined to be 145 with a 95% confidence interval by G-Power analysis. How many people would be included was determined by stratified sampling calculation based on classes and which students would be included was determined by simple random sampling. A questionnaire form including sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, grade level, marital status, perceived socioeconomic level), perceived stress scale (PSS), and emotional eating scale (EES) was applied to the participants. IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 and MS-Excel 2007 programs were used for statistical analyses.
Findings: In terms of PSS-Insufficient Self-Efficacy Perception scores, a statistically significant difference was found between 1st Grade—4th Grade, 3rd Grade—4th Grade in class level paired comparisons (p<0.05). In terms of PSS-Stress/Discomfort Perception scores, a statistically significant difference was found between 1st Grade—4th Grade in class level paired comparisons (p<0.05). In terms of PSS-Total scores, a statistically significant difference was found between 1st Grade—4th Grade, 3rd Grade—4th Grade in class level paired comparisons (p<0.05). No statistically significant difference was found between PSS-Insufficient Self-Efficacy Perception, PSS-Stress/Discomfort Perception, PSS-Total scores of individuals according to age, gender, marital status, and economic level (p>0.05). In terms of EES-Inability to Control Food Desire scores, a statistically significant difference was found between 2nd Grade—3rd Grade, 4th Grade—3rd Grade in pairwise comparisons at grade level (p<0.05). In terms of EES-Total scores, a statistically significant difference was found between 2nd Grade—3rd Grade, 1st Grade—2nd Grade in pairwise comparisons at grade level (p<0.05). No statistically significant difference was found between EES-Inability to Control Food Desire, EES-Type of Food, EES-Feeling of Guilt, EES-Total scores of individuals according to age, gender, marital status, economic level (p>0.05). A positive statistically significant relationship was found between EES-Insufficient self-efficacy perception score and EES-Inability to Control Food Desire score (r=0.445; p<0.001). A positive statistically significant relationship was found between the PSS-Total score and the EES-Inability to Restrain Eating and EES-Total scores (r=0.487; p<0.001, r=0.466; p<0.001).
Discussion and Conclusion: Based on the findings, perceived stress may influence emotional eating, guiding strategies to reduce stress levels and prevent related behaviors.
Keywords: emotional eating, emotional eating behaviour, perceived stress level