Association among Teenagers' Daily Type of Food, Sleep Pattern and Physical Exercise on Their Eating Disorders Behaviors
Abstract
Background: Health is a fundamental and active meaning in all people's habitual lives. It is inspired via way of means of behavior, circumstances, attitudes, and beliefs in addition to social and bodily environment. Industrialization, urbanization, monetary development, and marketplace inclusiveness have brought about a way of life alternative for the global population Objectives: Find out the Association between Teenagers' daily type of food, sleep pattern, and physical exercise on their eating disorders behaviors Methodology: A descriptive design study that uses comparative design was carried out throughout the present study. The study used Purposive sampling (Comparative Study). The sample size was 500 students (male and female) from all secondary schools in Baghdad at al-karkh sector Results: There is a significant relationship between eating disorder behaviors and all the student's lifestyles, except with students' duration of physical exercise Conclusions: There is no significant relationship between eating disorder behaviors and the duration of physical exercise, and there is a significant relationship between eating disorder behaviors with the type of food and sleep pattern Recommendations: Educational programs should be designed to increase parents knowledge and teenagers awareness about etiology, types, signs and symptom, treatment of eating disorders and encouraging them to practice healthy eating behaviors by providing scientific booklet, publication and journal about eating disorders,