A Correlational Study to assess the Impact of Social Media on Disordered Eating Behavior among Students of B.Sc. Nursing at MMINSR SKIMS
Abstract
Background: Eating practices are dramatically changing around the world and there is a rapid transition in culture due to fastest means of communication. This shift of culture has created a lasting effect in developing cultures of Asia. Emphasis of media on an extra skinny and underweight model as an ideal figure is causing a distress and psychological disruption in eating behavior of young boys and girls. In the whole course of life, we are conditioned to turn to food for pleasure and reinforcement. It is surprising that these reinforcements become hazardous in the college years. The evidence comes from the fact that after obesity and asthma, disordered eating is the most common chronic illness among adolescents and young adults. The study aimed to determine if there was a correlation between two disordered eating behavior and social media.
Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess the disordered eating behavior among the B.Sc. Nursing students, assess the social media usage among the B.Sc. Nursing students, find out correlation between disordered eating behavior and social media usage among the B.Sc. Nursing students, find out the association between disordered eating behavior and selected demographic variables, find out the association between social media usage and selected demographic variables.
Methodology: A quantitative research approach with correlational descriptive design was used to conduct the study on sample of 100 college students which were selected through stratified sampling technique at MMINSR, SKIMS, Soura. The data was collected through EAT-26 scale and self-structured social media usage scale.
Results: Findings revealed that there is a positive correlation between disordered eating behavior and social media (r=0.720,p <0.0001).
Conclusion: The findings of the study concluded that B.Sc. Nursing students were found to have disordered eating behavior and there was impact of social media on disordered eating behavior. It may be due today’s youth is just imitating what is shown on social media
they trust on what is shown like calorie deficit regime, the models having thin body, the competition to look good. By the use of social media, they had forgot what is healthy and what is disordered eating. Thus, there is impact of social media on disordered eating behavior.
Tikku O, Dar MA, Kour P, Kachroo M, Bashir I,
Haleema A. A Correlational Study to assess the
Impact of Social Media on Disordered Eating
Behavior among Students of B.Sc. Nursing
at MMINSR SKIMS. Trends Nurs Adm Edu.
2023;12(2):7-17.
References
Lucas AR, Crowson CS, O’Fallon WM, Melton LJ. The ups and downs of anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord [Internet]. 1999;26(4):397–405.
what is disordered eating(internet).Eatright.org. (cited2023oct23).Available form: https://www. eatright.org/health/healthcond/eating-disorder/what is-disordered -eating.
Ferreiro F, Seoane G, Senra C. A prospective study of risk factors for the development of depression and disordered eating in adolescents. Journal Clinic Child Adolescent Psychol [Internet]. 2011;40(3):500–5
Sanftner JL, Crowther JH, Crawford PA, Watts DD. Maternal influences (or lack thereof) on daughters’ eating attitudes and behaviors. Eat Disorder [Internet]. 1996;4(2):147–59.
Johnson MD, Powers T, Dick H. Disordered eating inactive and athletic women .clin sport med 1994;13:355-69.
Saha IS,Biswas R,Dutta IA. A comprehensive review on prevalence and risk factors of eating disorders and unhealthy eating behaviors in adolescents from some states of India between2010-2022. Ijfans.org. (cited 2023 nov 1)
Lopez-Gil Jf, Garcia A , Smith L ,Firth J , Trott M, Mesas Ae , et al . global proportion of disordered eating in children and adolsents : Asystematic review and meta- analysis. JAMA Pediatr.2023;177(4):363.
Ricciardelli, Lina A, Mc Cabe, Marita P. a biopsychosocial model of disordered eating and the pursuit of muscularity in adolescent boys. Psychological Bulletin.2004;130(2): 179-205.
Auxier B. Social media use in 2021 [Internet]. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. 2021 [cited 2023 Oct 13]. Available from: https://www. pewresearch.org/internet/2021/04/07/social-media- use-in-2021.
Huang Y-T, Su S-Motives for Instagram use and topics of interest among young adults. Future Internet (internet).2018 (cited 2023 oct 25),198):77.
Zhang J, Wang Y, Li Q, Wu C. The relationship between SNS usage and disordered eating behaviors: A meta- analysis. Front Psychol [Internet]. 2021;12.
Sidiq T, Bilal, Ganai A. Activity behavior and eating habits among adolescents of district Pulwama kashmir.2016;1:2455-4898.
Quttenia, Masrallah, kennel, Khaled. Relationship between social media use and disordered eating behavior among female students in Qatar. Journal of health and social sciences.2019; 4(1):59-72
Sharma M,Singh SK, Tiwari P ,Chauhan N. Body image perception ,eating attitude and influence of media among undergraduate students of medical college in Delhi : a cross sectional study.Int J Res Med Sci.2019;7(12):4627
Harrel. Social media and eating disorders. Master thesis.2021:1-43.
Singh MM,Parsekar SS,Bhumika.Body image, eating disorders and role of media among Indian adolscents.J Indian Assoc Child Adolesc Ment Health .2016;12(1):9- 35.
Derks and Jansen .association between social media usage and disorderd eating behavior among adolsecnts .master thesis.2022:1-51.
Edmund SCV. Disordered eating behaviour and its associated factors among college and university students in Sarawak. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS); 2020.
Husna N, Anil B,Neeti M.To assess the impact of social media on the dietary pattern of intermediate students. IJCRT.2023;11(7):55-64.
Sharma ,Habeeb ,Mulla , Rahman ,Singh, Tripathi, Sowmya, Yusufzai. Usage of social media among undergraduate university students. European journal of molecular and clinical medicine.2020;4(08):1605-1617.
Wilksch SM, O’Shea A, Ho P, Byrne S, Wade TD. The relationship between social media use and disordered eating in young adolescents. Int J Eat Disorder [Internet]. 2020;53(1):96–106.
Siddhartha S, Adil,Mulla, rahmanS,singh ,Tripathi,Sowmya R,zabin. Usage of social media among undergraduate students.Euro Jour of mole & clin med .2020;7(80):1605-1617.
Muthia AS, Margawati A, Fitranti DY, Dieny FF, Hananingtyas A. Correlation between Eating Behavior and use of social media with energy-dense food intake based on gender among students in Semarang, Indonesia. Open Access Maced J Med Sci [Internet]. 2022;10(E):602–10.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Author's
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Copyright is retained by the author(s) in all articles since 2020.
