Habits, Orthorexia Nervosa and LIfestyle in STudents (HOLISTic)

University of Split

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Habits; Physical Activity; Diet Habit; Health Behavior; Sleep; Stress

Treatments: Other: lifestyle characteristics

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04252924

USplitSM2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) compose a substantial proportion of the global burden of diseases, posing a significant challenge in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries. In particular, certain lifestyle-related risk factors, such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and sleep deprivation are the leading risk factors, which place people at an increased risk of developing NCDs. On the other hand, a growing phenomenon of excessive concern about diet and health is emerging, and it is contributing to the development of a novel eating behavior disorder named orthorexia nervosa. According to recent studies, orthorexic behavior is very common among young adults and especially so in health-care professionals.

The main objective of this multi-center study is to explore and compare lifestyle habits among undergraduate medical students and other healthcare-related professions from different countries (Croatia, Lebanon, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Turkey). The goal is to obtain information on the presence of unhealthy habits in order to be able to intervene, offering the information needed for primordial disease prevention in this young and still healthy group of respondents, who are the health educators and role models of the future. The particular importance of this goal is to raise awareness of the problem of the ubiquitously present unhealthy lifestyles. Unfortunately, health-care students are not the exception regarding the prevalence of the unhealthy diet, sedentary behavior, sleep deprivation and high levels of psychological stress. Furthermore, the adoption of unhealthy lifestyle patterns in health-care workers, such as doctors and nurses, will have far-reaching negative consequences, in both their health and their patients' health. The results of this study will be used for identifying the needs and targets for intervention, enabling students to become a pillar of health education for their patients and the population in general.

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. students enrolled in any of the health-care related studies:

   • medical students
   • dental medicine students
   • pharmacy students
   • nursing students
   • physiotherapy students
   • dietetics/nutrition students
   • biomolecular science students
   • biomedical laboratory techniques students
   • psychology students

2. economy students

3. students of maritime sciences

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

5,000 participants in 1 patient group

students

Description:

medical student, dental medicine student, pharmacy student, nursing student, physiotherapy student, dietetics student, kinesiology student, biomedical laboratory techniques student, biomolecular science student, psychology student, economy student, student of maritime sciences

Treatment:

Other: lifestyle characteristics