Avaliação da presença de compulsão alimentar e outros comportamentos alimentares em estudantes da Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Abstract

Binge eating is one of the characteristics of people who have a high level of anxiety and stress. Eating behavior can be greatly affected by emotions, as your food choices, the amounts eaten and the frequency of meals depend on several factors, one of which is emotions and not just your physiological needs. For data collection, the Food Compulsion Scale Questionnaire - BES was used, which was applied to students of the Law, Civil Engineering and Nutrition courses at the Federal University of Tocantins. Of the total number of students evaluated, 5.6% were classified with severe CAP (Periodic Food Compulsion), 7% with moderate CAP and 87.3 without CAP. Evaluating the data by course, the group with the highest index of severe CAP was the law group (10.5%) and the lowest in civil engineering, which did not present any individual with this characterization. The results showed that there is no significant difference between the groups. Therefore, more in-depth studies are necessary, using other tools associated with the questionnaire Scale of Food Compulsion - BES, and creating links so that there is a better evaluation of the participants, verifying the real index of the disorder within the universities and encouraging the creation of measures to help and raise awareness about the seriousness of this eating disorder.