Dietary Regimen, Overweight, and Obesity in Human Nutrition Students and Other Majors: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Characteristics of students according to type of career.
Variable
Human nutrition (n = 69)
Other careersa (n = 89)
Total (n = 158)
n
%
n
%
n
%
Age (mean ± SD)
22.2 ± 3.1 years
22.3 ± 4.1 years
22.3 ± 3.7 years
Sex
Male
19
27.5
46
51.7
65
41.1 58.9
Female
50
72.5
43
48.3
93
Place of origin
Coast
39
56.5
41
46.1
80
50.6
Sierra
20
29.0
30
33.7
50
31.6
Jungle
7
10.1
12
13.5
19
12.0
Foreign
3
4.3
6
6.7
9
5.7
Religion
Adventist
62
89.9
86
96.6
148
93.7
Othersb
7
10.1
3
3.4
10
6.3
Faculty
FBS
69
100
8
9.0
8
5.1
FHSE
8
9.0
8
5.1
FHS
39
43.8
108
68.4
FEA
20
22.5
20
12.7
FT
14
15.7
14
8.9
Year of study
1st
6
8.7
7
7.9
13
8.2
2nd
10
14.5
16
18.0
26
16.5
3rd
18
26.1
29
32.6
47
29.7
4th
26
37.7
23
25.8
49
31.0
5th
9
13.0
12
13.5
21
13.3
6th
0
0.0
1
1.1
1
0.6
7th
0
0.0
1
1.1
1
0.6
Presence of disease
Yes
7
10.1
12
13.5
19
12.0
No
62
89.9
77
86.5
139
88.0
Use of medications
Yes
5
7.2
5
5.6
10
6.3
No
64
92.8
84
94.4
148
93.7
Use of supplements
Yes
5
7.2
3
3.4
8
5.1
No
64
92.8
86
96.6
150
94.9
aIt included administration; architecture; communication sciences; accounting; education; nursing; environmental, civil, food and systems engineering; medicine; psychology and theology. bIt included Catholic, Evangelical, Mormon, and no religion. FBS, Faculty of Business Sciences; FHSE, Faculty of Human Sciences and Education; FHS, Faculty of Health Sciences; FEA, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture; FT, Faculty of Theology.
