| Summary: | 碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 106 === As the society changes with the development of technology, people engage in more indoor activities which require less physical activity. People tend to intake more nutrition than their bodies’ need, which results in abnormal body types not commonly accepted by people under the influence of social media. Bad body types not only cause anxiety, but pose enormous threat to students’ health condition. Therefore, the research is to identify the correlation between college students’ physical activity, body image, and dietary behavior. This study used cross-section survey to collect date including personal background information, physical activity, body image, and dietary behavior. The participants are students from to university of technology in central Taiwan while 412 questionnaires are distributed and 388 response received with an overall response rate of 94.2%. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 18 software package to figure out the differences between individuals and their physical activity, body image, and dietary behavior as well as the relation between the three. This study found that: (1)College students engage in vigorous physical activity for 23.25±26.14 minutes, 1.73±2.02 days and burn 78.66±121.51 calories on average; moderate physical activity for 25.49±24.81 minutes, 2.03±2.05 days and burn 45.16±69.86 calories on average; walking for 28.94±21.82 minutes, 3.88±2.42 days and burn 61.20±64.54 calories on average. (2) College students whose body image matches their realistic body types: having higher ideal for body type than those who are underweighted, obese and overweight. Students whose recognized healthy body type does not match the realistic body type: 74.6% among those who are underweight but want to become lighter, 73.3% among those who are of ideal body type but not being aware of the fact. Those who perceive the need to lose weight and their realistic body types: 97.8% among those who have false perception of being overweight. 97.1% among those who have false perception of being obese. Participants have highest satisfaction to their hair and least satisfaction to their lower trunk. (3) Severe deficiency in the intake of healthy diet among college students: 88.4% in fruits, 86.1% in vegetables, 89.4% in low-fat dairy products, 80.2% in meats and protein, 69.1% in grain products, 96.4% in nuts and oil, 62.9% in water. Drinking sweetened beverages for 2.90±2.20 days; having breakfast outside for 5.04±2.58 days, eating midnight snack for 2.18±2.59 days. (4) Non-healthcare majors have better performance than healthcare majors on vigorous physical activity. Obese students have better performance than underweight students on vigorous physical activity. On moderate physical activity, obese students have better performance than students who are of underweight, ideal, body types. Males have better performance than females on walking. (5) In terms of body image confidence, non-healthcare majors have better body image confidence than healthcare majors; males better than females. Those who are of ideal body type have higher confidence than those who are overweight while those who are underweight have higher confidence than the two. In terms of the correctness of body type perception, males are better than females; senior students are better than junior students. (6) Students living with family consume more fruits and vegetables than students living outside. Students attending health facilitating courses consume more vegetables than those who don’t. Non-healthcare majors consumes more dairy products than healthcare related majors. Healthcare related majors consume more grain products than non-healthcare majors. Students with less monthly allowance consume more grains, oil and nuts than those with more monthly allowance. Males consume more water than females; obese, overweight students consumes more water than underweight students and students of ideal body type. Students who do not sign up for health facilitating courses have their breakfast and lunch outside more frequently than those who do. Students with more monthly allowance have lunch, dinner outside, drink sweetened beverages and eat midnight snacks more frequently than those with less monthly allowance. Non-healthcare majors have dinner outside, drink sweetened beverages and eat midnight snacks more frequently than healthcare majors. Males have dinner outside and eat midnight snacks more frequently than females. Students living outside have meals outside more frequently than students living at home. (7) The correctness of body type perception is positively correlated to body image confidence. Satisfaction to body parts, body image confidence and the correctness of body type perception have positive correlations. Healthy diet is positively correlated to satisfaction to body parts.
The result above can be provided to education and health agencies to help make students aware of healthy lifestyle.
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