title: Eating behaviour among undergraduate students. Comparing nutrition students with other courses.
abstract: Our main aim was to compare eating behaviour between Portuguese undergraduate nutrition students and students attending other courses. Several eating behaviour dimensions were compared between 154 nutrition students and 263 students from other areas. Emotional and external eating were assessed by the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, dietary restraint was measured using the flexible and rigid control of eating behaviour subscales, binge eating was measured using the Binge Eating Scale, and eating self-efficacy using the General Eating Self-Efficacy Scale. Higher levels of flexible and rigid control were found in nutrition students from both sexes when compared to students from other courses. Female nutrition students also presented higher binge eating levels than their colleagues from other courses. To our knowledge no other work has previously assessed all eating behaviour dimensions considered in the current study among nutrition students. Besides the results by themselves, the data obtained from this study provide several clues to further studies to be developed regarding the still rarely approached issue of eating behaviour among nutrition students.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: ruipoinhos@fcna.up.pt.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Poínhos
authors.forename: Diogo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.forename: Elisée
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; Centro Hospitalar de São João, E.P.E., Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Sílvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pinhão
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Apoio à Decisão, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Bruno M P M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; Centro Hospitalar de São João, E.P.E., Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal; Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Nefrologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Flora
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Correia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology; D003463:Cues; D003718:Denmark; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating; D004644:Emotions; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D052756:Nutritional Sciences; D011174:Portugal; D012306:Risk; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Body mass index; Eating behaviour; Higher education students; Nutrition students