Journal of Community Health Research
مجله تحقیقات سلامت
JCHR
Medical Sciences
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Investigating the Relationship between Internet Addiction and Dietary Behavior among Students: an analytical cross-sectional study
بهداشت عمومی
Public Health
پژوهشي
Research
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">Background:</span></span></b><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"> Internet addiction can affect students' general health. Regarding to the importance of healthy eating and the impact on health and academic achievement of students. This research was conducted to aim the assessment of relationship between internet addiction and dietary behavior among students.</span></span></span></span><br>
<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">Methods:</span></span></b> <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">In this an analytical cross-sectional study, 373 nursing and midwifery students</span></span><span style="line-height:115%"> of Tehran University of Medical Sciences <span style="background:white">participated in 2020. Data were collected by Young's Internet Addiction Scale, demographic data and Dietary Behavior questionnaire. Data analyzed by SPSS V.21 and</span></span> <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">descriptive indicators including frequency, percentage, and inferential tests including chi-square test. A significance level of less than 0.05 was considered.</span></span></span></span><br>
<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">Results:</span></span></b> <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">The majority of the student population had no internet addiction by 91.4%. Also, 8.3% and 0.3% from student population were potential risk and high risk respectively. There was a statistical significant correlation between levels of internet addiction and dietary behavior in high-fat diets (r = 0.483, P = 0.004), snacking (r = 0.455, P > 0.001), emotional eating behavior (r = 0.543, P > 0.001) and poor dietary pattern (r = 0.632; P < 0.001).</span></span></span></span><br>
<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">Conclusions:</span></span></b> <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%">It is suggested to improve students' beneficial use of the internet with training and improve their dietary behavior.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Addiction, Nursing, Midwifery, Students, Dietary, Addictive behavior
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http://jhr.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1815-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1
Ali
Dehghani
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