SUN-PP242: Nutritional Risk Screening in Faroe Islands: An Audit

Abstract

when the difference was found / =0. The correlation between BMI “current body” and the self-reported BMI was estimated by Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r). The association between body dissatisfaction and sample characteristics was evaluated using the chi-square test. Results: The average age was 21.5 (SD = 3.7) years, and 63.8% were women. Among students from university, 30.6% had labor activity, 13.4% used medicine to change the body mainly for weight loss (50.6%) and 22.8% used dietary supplements specially for lean mass gains (63.1%). 68.8% were eutrophic, 24.5% overweight and 6.7% were underweight. The average self-reported BMI for women and men was 22.5 kg/m2 (SD = 3.8) and 24.2 kg/m2 (SD = 4.0), respectively. It was found a strong and significant correlation between self-Reported BMI and BMI “current body” for men (r = 0.81, p < 0.05) and women (r = 0.76, p < 0.05). Among the participants, 83.2% had body dissatisfaction. A significant association between body dissatisfaction and sex (p = 0.002), nutritional status (p = 0.002) and medication use to change the body (p = 0.004). Conclusion: There was a high prevalence of body dissatisfaction among students. The most affected were women, people with overweight/obesity people and others reported relaram drugs use to change the body.