An investigation of eating attitudes and disorders in students of medicine, sports sciences and health sciences (nursing) faculties in two different provinces of Turkey

This study was conducted to determine and compare the attitudes of students studying in the departments of Medicine, Nursing, Physical Education Teaching, Sports Management and Coaching in two universities located in different geographical regions of Turkey regarding eating and healthy nutrition. 569 (42,5%) males and 771 (57,5%) females participated in our study and the total sample size consisted of 1340 participants. Random stratified sampling method was used to determine the sample. In determining the attitudes of the participants towards eating and healthy nutrition, a questionnaire form consisting of YTT-26 and SBITÖ scales was applied and the collected data were compared in terms of variables with SPSS 27.0 programme. Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare university and gender, and Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare department, class, BMI and age groups. According to the statistical data, there is a significant difference between university, department, class, age and BMI variables in terms of eating attitude mean scores (p<0.05), but no significant difference has been in terms of gender variable (p>0.05). In terms of healthy eating attitude mean scores, there is a significant difference between the variables of university, department, class and age groups (p<0,05), but there is no significant difference between BMI and gender variables and healthy eating attitude mean scores (p>0,05).