A relação entre a auto imagem corporal e o risco de transtornos alimentares em estudantes do Curso de Nutrição em Cuiabá- MT

Abstract

Eating disorders (ED) are characterized by a pattern of disturbed abnormal behavior, which causes harm to the physical and mental health of an individual. The present study aims to evaluate the relationship between the risk of ED and body image dissatisfaction among university students of the Nutrition Course of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). Cross-sectional study with convenience sample of female students from the UFMT nutrition course. To evaluate the risk for anorexia nervosa (AN), the EAT-26 questionnaire was used, and Bulimic Investigatory Test Endinburgh (BITE) was used to assess the risk of bulimia nervosa (BN). The Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) was used to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of the body image. The Silhouette Matching Task (SMT) was used to evaluate body image perception. In addition, sociodemographic and lifestyle data were collected. For the analysis of the data, the chi-square test was applied, adopting the level of significance of 5%. A total of 140 university students were included, the majority being between 18 and 23 years old (82%), 76.4% were family members and 96.4% had no children. In the evaluation by the BSQ, it was verified that 48.75% presented some degree of alteration in the corporal perception. By the SMT, 62.1% had body dissatisfaction due to overweight and 20.7% by thinness. The risk for AN by EAT-26 was 22.9% and in the BITE scale the prevalence of symptoms of compulsion and diagnosis of BN was 12.9%. Body dissatisfaction, body image distortion and presence of risk for BN were associated with a higher risk of developing AN. The dissatisfaction and alteration of the perception of the body image is associated with the risk of ED in university students of the course of nutrition.