충북지역 대학생들의 스트레스 수준과 식생활지침 이행도와의 관계

Relationship between stress level and practice of dietary guidelines among university students in Chungbuk

A survey was carried out to investigate the relationship between stress level and practice of dietary guidelines of university students. The subjects of this study were 205 students of Chungbuk National University (males = 104, females = 101) and most of the males and the females were in the junior class (48.0%, 43.5%). Smoking rate of the males (36.5%) was higher than that of the females (2.9%) (p<0.001), and the rate of regular exercise of the male (35.5%) was higher than that of the females (21.7%) (p<0.05). As for the total stress score, the females' score (105.4 points) was higher than the males' score (99.2 points) (p<0.05), indicating that the females had more stress than the males. When the stress level was divided into domains, the score of fatigue stress was highest both in the males (3.00) and the females (3.06); the females were higher than the males both in depression stress and frustration stress. As for the score of practice of dietary guidelines, the senior males and females showed higher score when compared to the other students. As for practicing the contents of the dietary guidelines, "exercise at least for 30 minutes a day" showed higher practice in the males than in the females (p<0.05), while "eat less fried food" showed higher practice in the females than in the males (p<0.01). For both the males and the females, the students who took classes associated with food & nutrition showed higher practice of dietary guidelines than those who did not (p<0.05), and the females who drink alcohol showed considerably lower practice of dietary guidelines than the females who do not drink (p<0.05). As for the relationship between stress and practice of dietary guidelines, only depression stress (p<0.05) had negative effects on dietary behavior of the males among the stress sub-factors, while aggression (p<0.001), anger (p<0.05), and depression (p<0.01) stress had negative effects on dietary behavior of the females. In conclusion, stress was indicated to have negative effects on dietary behavior of the university students, suggesting that education on reduction in stress should be included in developing nutrition programs in order for the students to be improved in their dietary behavior desirably.