Bireylerin yeme tutum davranışları ve beden imaj algısı arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi

This work is done with the purpose of examining the relationship between the eating attitude behaviour and the body image perception of individuals. 366 voluntary 18-56 aged individuals from a private yoga center have participated in the research. These individuals were asked to fulfill a 98-question data collection survey consisting of 7 Demographic Questions, 26 EAT-26 Eating Attitude Test, 31 BCS Body Cathexis Scale Test and 34 FFQ Food Frequency Questionnaire. The study was initiated based on the approval given by the Yeditepe University Clinical Research Ethics Committee on January 21, 2021, and data were collected between February 1 and March 31. The study consists of 4 different parts: Demographic Information, EAT-26 (Eating Attitude Test), BCS (Body Cathexis Scale) and FFQ (Food Frequency Questionnaire). In the Demographic Information section, general descriptive statistics such as age, height, weight, educational status, gender is asked to partcipants. Exercise status is also asked in this section as it can be associated with many other data of the survey. The EAT-26, BCS and FFQ are internationally valid scales. The EAT-26 scale was developed in 1982 to determine the risk of eating disorders. EAT-40, the previous version of the EAT-26 scale, was composed by Garner & Garfinkel in 1979 for the detection of Anorexia Nervosa, and then EAT-26 was developed for the detection of all kinds of eating disorders risk. The BCS Body Cathexis Scale was composed by Secard & Jourard in 1953 and adapted to Turkish society by Hovardaoğlu in 1986. The FFQ Food Frequency Questionnaire of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is applied to the participants which is a reliable questionnaire organized by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to evaluate the nutritional status of individuals. NCSS (Number Cruncher Statistical System) 2007 (Kaysville, Utah, USA) program was used for statistical analysis. Descriptive statistical methods (mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, minimum, maximum) were used while evaluating the study data. The suitability of quantitative data to normal distribution was tested by Shapiro-Wilk test and graphical analysis. Independent groups t test was used to compare normally distributed quantitative variables between two groups. One-way analysis of variance and Bonferroni corrected binary evaluations were used for comparing more than two groups of quantitative variables with normal distribution. Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationships between quantitative variables. Statistical significance was accepted as p <0.05. The relationship between eating attitudes and body image perception, which is the starting point of the study, was measured by EAT-26 and BCS tests, and a very weak negative relationship was found in accordance with our initial hypothesis. According to the scores of the EAT-26 scale through our analysis, 91.3% of the participants (n = 334) had no risk of eating attitude behavior disorder, while 8.7% (n = 32) had. So the eating disorder risk was found 8.7%. When the relationships between eating frequencies, BMI and gender were examined, it was seen that some food groups showed a significant difference according to BMI and gender, and these food groups were determined. In our study, which investigated the relationship between eating attitude behaviors and body image perception , remarkable data related to our subject is found which we think may contribute to future studies as a result of examining these two scales and their relationship with other descriptive statistics.