Evaluation of the relationship between intuitive eating behavior, depression and body mass index in individuals aged 20-65 years who switched to working from home during the COVİD-19 pandemic process

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between intuitive eating behavior, depression and body mass index (BMI) in individuals who switched to working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic period. It was carried out with 158 volunteer participants aged between 20-65, who switched to working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic period and living in different provinces of Turkey. The data were collected online by survey method, between July 2021 and November 2021. There were demographic questions in the questionnaire, and intuitive eating was evaluated using the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2) and depression using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Analysis of the data was carried out in IBM SPSS 25 program. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U Test, Kruskal Test and Post Hoc Bonferroni Test, Fisher's Exact Test, Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test, and Spearman correlation were used in the analysis. It was determined that 70.3% of the individuals participating in the survey were female and 29.7% were male. While the intuitive eating score of 38% of the individuals is above the average, the intuitive eating score of 62% is below the average. When the Beck Depression Scale score distributions of the participants were examined, it was determined that 48.1% of them were normal, 29.1% were mild, 19.6% were moderately and 3.2% were severely depressed. A statistically significant negative correlation was found with the correlation coefficient of -0.248 calculated between the 'meal due to satiety signals' and the BMI values of the participants (p<0.05). A statistically significant, negative correlation was found with the -0.167 correlation coefficient calculated between the sub-dimensions of the intuitive eating scale, 'body-food choice fit' and the BMI values of the participants (p<0.05). The relationship between individuals' intuitive eating and beck depression scale scores was statistically insignificant (p>0.05). The relationship between individuals' beck depression scale scores and BMI values is statistically insignificant (p>0.05).