İstanbul'da özel bir üniversitede beslenme ve diyetetik bölümü öğrencilerinin kahvaltı alışkanlıkları ve uyku kalitelerinin bel çevreleri ile karşılaştırılması

Oğuz Alibaşoğlu, Comparison of Breakfast Habits, Sleep Quality and Waist Circumferences of Nutrition and Dietetics Students in a Private University in İstanbul. Yeditepe University Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, MSc Thesis, İstanbul, 2017. Obesity has been regarded as a threatening factor that has a rapidly increased incidence in recent years and is a risk factor for many diseases. Sleep patterns and breakfast habits are among the factors that increase the risk of obesity in many age groups. The study was carried out on 179 woman students who were registered to the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Yeditepe University and were in the age range between of 18-28 years and received written voluntary consent, following the approval of the ethics committee dated 07.12.17 and numbered 37068608-6100-15-1397. Questionnaire surveying sleep habits, meal skipping habits and reasons for skipping, living place characteristics and sleeping habits was performed and waist circumferences were recorded. Sleep quality was measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). No significant relationship was found between breakfast skipping and waist circumference (p = 0,143, p> 0.05). There was no significant relationship between sleep quality and waist circumference according to PSQI (p = 0,821, p> 0.05) also there was no significant relationship between sleep quality and breakfast habit (p = 0,310, p> 0.05). Considering that sleep duration and quality are related to many diseases, precautions should be taken to improve sleep quality. Keywords: Breakfast, Sleep Quality, Waist Circumference