The trial status and expectation degree on internet diet program by female university students : Focused on trial status.
- Author:
UnJae CHANG
1
;
JuYeon HA
;
WanSoo HONG
Author Information
1. Department of Food & Nutrition, Dongduk Women's University, Korea. uj@dongduk.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
internet diet;
female students;
PIBW
- MeSH:
Body Weight;
Diet*;
Education;
Female*;
Humans;
Internet*;
Overweight;
Seoul;
Thinness
- From:Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
2004;10(3):356-363
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
This study was to investigate the trial status of weight control with internet. A survey was carried out by self-questionnaires with 500 female university students in Seoul. The average height, weight, and PIBW(Percentage of Ideal Body Weight) of subjects were 162.2+/-4.8cm, 51.9+/-6.1kg and 93.7+/-11.0%. It appeared that 50.6% of subjects were abnormal range of body weight : in particular 43.4% of the subjects were underweight. While 80.7% of subjects have deeply interested in weight control, 63.4% of them have attempted diet. It showed that 92.9% of subjects used internet, 54.3 % of them knew internet diet site, however only 39 of subjects used internet diet program. Most subjects used internet diet program in order to acquire diet information. According to PIBW, the overweight group is higher frequency of joining internet diet program than the others group. Therefore, education of weight control was needed with internet in abnormal weight group.
