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Volume 05
Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics
ISSN: 2472-1921
JOINT EVENT
June 17-18, 2019 London, UK
Nutrition World 2019
Euro Obesity 2019
June 17-18, 2019
&
26
th
World Nutrition Congress
15
th
Euro Obesity and Endocrinology Congress
Diet quality self-assessment and total adiposity markers in college students
Lídia Pitaluga Pereira, Lorena Barbosa Fonseca, Patrícia Simone Nogueira, Ana Paula Alves de Souza, Bruna Klein Guimarães de Souza, Paulo Rogério
Melo Rodrigues, Ana Paula Muraro
and
Márcia Gonçalves Ferreira
UFMT, BRAZIL
Statement
: Diet quality self-assessment can be a potential indicator to promoting a healthy lifestyle, similarly to the
self-rated health indicator.
Objective
: To verify the association between diet quality self-assessment and markers of total adiposity among
university students.
Methodology andTheoretical Orientation
: Cross-sectional study conducted with freshman in the first semester of
21 full-time courses at a public university in the Central-West region of Brazil, who were enrolled in 2018, male and
female college students (16 to 25 years old). Diet quality self-assessment was measured using the question "How do
you rate the quality of your diet?", and the answers were categorized into “good”, “fair”, and “poor”. The total adiposity
was evaluated by the weight status defined by the Body Mass Index according to the World Health Organization
recommendations for each age group and the percentage of body fatwas obtained by electrical bioimpedance and
categorized as high (yes/no). Multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze the magnitude of the associations,
adjusting for sex, age and economic class.
Findings
: A total of 571 university students were evaluated of which 47.8% considered their diet as regular, 32.6% as
good and 19.6% as poor. Diet quality self-assessment as poor was higher for females (22.6% vs 16.5%, p=0.03) and
for students who belonged to higher economic class compared to those of lower economic class (26.7% vs 18.2%
p=0.04). In the multiple analysis diet quality self-assessment as poor was associated with overweight (p˂0.01), but
not with percentage of body fat.
Conclusion and Significance
: Diet quality self-assessment poor shows association with overweight.
Biography
Lídia Pitaluga is graduated in Nutrition by the Federal University of Mato Grosso (2006), Master in Biosciences by the Federal University of Mato Grosso (2014).
Doctoral student in Collective Health, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil. She has experience in Nutritional Epidemiology, working mainly in the following
subjects: information systems, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, obesity, lifestyle.
lid_pit@hotmail.comLídia Pitaluga Pereira et al., J Clin Nutr Diet 2019, Volume 05