StudentKost: a cross-sectional study assessing college students' diets: reason for concern?

Autor: Dagrun Engeset, Erlend Larsen Valen, Nina Cecilie Øverby, Elisabet Rudjord Hillesund
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Universities
Cross-sectional study
Endocrinology
Diabetes and Metabolism
Population
Psychological intervention
Norwegian
Diet Surveys
VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Ernæring: 811
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Environmental health
Surveys and Questionnaires
Oily fish
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
education
Students
education.field_of_study
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Norway
Dietary intake
Public health
Nutritional Requirements
Feeding Behavior
Micronutrient
language.human_language
Preconception health
Diet
Cross-Sectional Studies
Food consumption survey
language
Female
business
Research Article
Young adults
Food Science
Zdroj: Journal of Nutritional Science (JNS)
Journal of Nutritional Science
ISSN: 2048-6790
Popis: College students constitute a significant proportion of the young adult population in Norway. They are in their reproductive years, which is of interest regarding diet and preconception health. Our objective was to assess young college students’ diet and nutrient intake in relation to national dietary recommendations and assess the probability of inadequate micronutrient intake for both genders using the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, and also to evaluate its consequences on preconception health and create a groundwork for future interventions on this group. At the University of Agder (UiA), we enrolled 622 students aged 18–40 years for a cross-sectional study of student's diet, StudentKost. The students completed a food frequency questionnaire, including questions of supplement use, over the past 4 weeks. Intake of fruits, vegetables, oily fish, and whole grain was lower than recommended, as were mean intake of folate, iron, and iodine. Our main findings are that students have a somewhat suboptimal diet compared to the Norwegian dietary guidelines. Male students had generally lower diet quality than females. Compared to the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR), we also saw a relatively high probability of inadequate intake of several micronutrients and a very high probability for some micronutrients in a significant portion of the sample. Public health effort should be directed towards improving students and young adults’ diet in general, and interventions towards improving preconception health should be explored. The low participation rate limits the generalizability of our findings. Our findings encourage further investigation into young adults’ diet.
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