Comportamento alimentar e imagem corporal entre estudantes de educação física

Abstract

Objective: To characterize eating practices and possible risk factors associated with eating disorders among physical education students in a public university of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Methods: Sectional study, electing as target population a risk group for the emergence of eating disorders. The questionnaires Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) and a variety that considers related issues were applied. Results: A positive result was detected in 6.9% of cases (IC95%: 3.6-11.7%) on EAT-26. On BITE, for elevated symptoms and severe cases, a prevalence of 5% was found (IC95%: 2.4-9.5%) and 2.5% (IC95%: 0.7-6.3%), respectively. It was evidenced that 26.29% of students presented abnormal eating behavior. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrate the need to pay attention to risk eating behaviors in this group, being justified to take special care with these future health care educators.