Living with families situations of university studentsdietary habits and chronotyps according to effect on diet quality indexes

Adequate and balanced nutrition is one of the most important steps to becoming a healthy individual. Various scales have been developed to measure the nutritional quality of individuals. Diet Quality Index (DQI), one of these scales, is one of the expanded diet quality measurement techniques based on the recommendations of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for daily nutrients and nutrients. The aim of this research is to examine and determine the eating habits of university students aged 18-25 according to their living status with their families and to evaluate their diet quality indexes and to examine the relationship between students' chronotypes and diet quality indexes. This study was conducted at Düzce University Central Campus with 380 people, 195 women and 185 men. The data of this study was obtained using face-to-face data collection technique. As data collection tools in the study, Personal Information Form, Nutrition and Sleeping Habits Survey, Food Consumption Frequency, Food Consumption Record were applied to individuals through the researcher. The collected data were evaluated with "IBM SPSS Statistics 27". The diet scores of the individuals were found to be 20.53% low, 40% medium and 39.47% high. It was determined that there was no significant relationship between the participants' gender and their diet quality indexes (p>0.05), and that there was a statistically significant relationship between the students' diet quality indexes and their place of residence (p<0.05). Chronotypes of the individuals were found to be 43.68% morning type, 44.47% evening type, and 11.84% intermediate type. It was determined that there was no significant relationship between the place of residence of the participants, their gender and their chronotypes (p>0.05). It was determined that there was a significant relationship (p<0.05) between the participants' diet quality indexes and their chronotypes. More studies should be done on this subject, students should be informed about balanced and adequate nutrition and their access to healthy food should be facilitated.