Relación entre el estado emocional y la conducta alimentaria en adolescentes de la Unidad Educativa La Salle 2022- 20223

Abstract

Eating behavior is part of a series of cultural, social, psychological, religious, economic and geographical factors that shape a given social group. These aspects are closely related to the contexts that set a given place. In order to understand this fact at the local level, it has been necessary to develop the present study entitled "Relationship between the emotional state and eating behavior in adolescents of the educational unit La Salle 2022- 2023". The central purpose is to determine this latent nexus in the population under study, for which an analytical cross-sectional study was chosen. The sample consisted of 101 students between 16 and 18 years of age. Two important questionnaires were used as instruments: the CARME to determine eating behavior and the risk of excess malnutrition and the AEBQ on eating behavior. However, they were modified to suit the analyzed adolescents. In this way, it was possible to describe the general qualities of the group, identify their emotional state, their eating behavior and determine their anthropometric nutritional status. Thus, it was found that, indeed, emotions have an impact on the nutrition of the students. They state that when they feel excessively angry or happy, they tend to consume large amounts of food. This shows that 59.4% of the adolescents present a risk of malnutrition and of being emotional eaters; in addition, the average weight of the subjects was 67.4kg and height 163.5cm. The height/age z-score was -0.65 with a standard deviation of 1.19 which was considered within normal ranges. The BMI/age z-score was 1.05 with a standard deviation of 0.81 which indicated that the subjects were above the range of normality.