Body Image Self-Perception and Risky Eating Behaviors in Medicine Undergraduate Students in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (2014)

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/revsalud/a.7612

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Published: Feb 8, 2019
Issue: Vol. 17 No. 1 (2019): Ciencias de la Salud
Section Clinical or Experimental Research


Keywords: conductas alimentarias de riesgo , índice de insatisfacción corporal , índice de distorsión corporal , imagen corporal , estudiantes universitarios , México. Risky eating behaviors , index of body image dissatisfaction , index of body image distortion , body image , university undergraduate students , Mexico. condutas alimentares de risco , índice de insatisfação corporal , índice de distorção corporal , imagem corporal , estudantes universitários , México.

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Mauricio Fidel Mendoza González Instituto de Salud Pública, Universidad Veracruzana, Hospital Regional Luis F. Nachón.
Guadalupe Jacqueline Olalde Libreros Facultad de Nutrición, Universidad Veracruzana.
Abstract
Introduction: The current beauty standard is associated with thinness, a situation that alters the body perception and can lead to the development of an eating disorder. Objective: To determine the relationship between the indexes of body image dissatisfaction and body image distortion and risky eating behaviors (REB) in a university population of medicine students in Veracruz, Mexico. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional analytical study, with a sample of 187 students. A register was drawn up that included the SFS-test to evaluate the body image and to estimate the indices of dissatisfaction and distortion of the body image, the Brief Questionnaire of Risky Eating Behaviors validated in Mexican population, as well as social variables. A descriptive analysis was carried out with basic measures of frequency and dispersion, bivariate and multimodal analyses were performed too. Results: 43 % were female, and the average age was 21 (± 1.7) similar in both sexes. The prevalence of high risk of reb was 8.6 %, higher in men (9.4 % versus 7.4 %) and medium risk (23.5 %) with the distribution reversed by sex (28.4 % in women and 19.8 % in men). The dissatisfaction index was 59.4 % covering those who perceived having a higher weight than they would like to have. Concerning the distortion of the own body image it was observed that 41.2 % supposed to haveing a higher weight than what resulted from the anthropometric evaluation. Discussion: Dissatisfaction rates showed a positive correlation gradient with rebs, being this more evident in men.
Author Biographies

Mauricio Fidel Mendoza González, Instituto de Salud Pública, Universidad Veracruzana, Hospital Regional Luis F. Nachón.

Instituto de Salud Pública, Universidad Veracruzana, Hospital Regional Luis F. Nachón.

Guadalupe Jacqueline Olalde Libreros, Facultad de Nutrición, Universidad Veracruzana.

Facultad de Nutrición, Universidad Veracruzana.

How to Cite
Mendoza González, M. F., & Olalde Libreros, G. J. (2019). Body Image Self-Perception and Risky Eating Behaviors in Medicine Undergraduate Students in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (2014). Revista Ciencias De La Salud, 17(1), 34–52. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/revsalud/a.7612
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