Insatisfacción de la imagen corporal y relación con la evaluación nutricional de las estudiantes de la carrera de nutrición y salud comunitaria de la Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ibarra. 2017.

Abstract

The aim of this research is to seek the relationship between body dissatisfaction and nutritional assessment in Nutrition career students from the North Technical University. It is a nonexperimental, correlational and transversal study. 120 women students from first to sixth semester

of Nutrition were evaluated. To measure body dissatisfaction, the Body Shape Questionnaire was

used; in the anthropometric nutritional assessment that includes Body Mass Index (BMI), body

fat percentage and somatotype, the ISAK restricted profile protocol and Durning and Siri formulas

were applied; the evaluation of the food intake was made with a 24-hour Reminder and glucose,

cholesterol and triglycerides were measured

in the clinical laboratory. It was analyzed in IBM SPSS Statistics 23. It was found that more than 50% of the students presented some degree of body dissatisfaction, high prevalence of overweight and obesity according to body fat percentage. There was a relationship between the assessment and through the BMI does not measure adiposity, in addition it was observed that the students consume energy, proteins and carbohydrates in lower values than the ones required. It was confirmed that there is a statistically significant relationship (p <0.05) between body dissatisfaction and anthropometric variables, triglycerides and fat intake. An important relationship between body dissatisfaction and nutritional status was appreciated in this group.