Sağlık Bilimleri Öğrencilerinde Obezite Ön Yargısı ve İlişkili Etmenler

Abstract

Aim: This research was planned to determine the obesity prejudice levels of the faculty of health sciences students and to investigate factors related to obesity prejudice in students. Material and Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with 756 students studying at the faculty of health sciences of a state university. The data were collected using a questionnaire including sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle habits, anthropometric measurements, GAMS-27 Obesity Prejudice Scale, and Eating Attitude Test-40. SPSS 26.0 statistical software was used to analyze the data and the significance level was accepted as p<0.05. Results: The mean age of the students participating in this research was 20.07±1.36 years. According to the GAMS-27 Obesity Prejudice Scale, 53.6% of students were prejudiced against obesity, 41.1% were inclined to prejudice and 5.3% were unprejudiced. When obesity prejudice was evaluated by departments, obesity prejudice was found higher among nutrition and dietetic students compared to nursing and physiotherapy and rehabilitation students (p<0.001). According to body mass index classification, obesity prejudice scale scores were determined lower in students with obesity compared to other students (p=0.001). Similarly, students who accepted themselves as obese in a period throughout their life had significantly lower prejudice scale scores than those without such a period (p=0.005).