Relationships between dietary habits and the prevalence of fatigue in medical students
Relationships between dietary habits and the prevalence of fatigue in medical students
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DOI：
10.1016/j.nut.2008.05.003
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
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影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Watanabe, Yasuyoshi
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作者：
Tanaka, Masaaki;Mizuno, Kei;Watanabe, Yasuyoshi
目的：疲劳是医学生的常见症状，与学习成绩差有关。由于不吃早餐、不规律用餐等饮食习惯受损与学业成绩不佳有关，因此对医学生的饮食习惯是否与疲劳的发生相关进行了研究。方法：研究对象为127名就读于大阪市立大学医学部的健康二年级医学生。结果：在调整了年龄、性别、体重指数和夜间睡眠时间的多因素Logistic回归分析中，不吃早餐(每天完全不吃早餐与每天吃早餐；结论：不吃早餐和不规律进餐与疲劳的发生呈正相关。结论：不吃早餐和不规律进餐与疲劳的发生呈正相关。(C)2008 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Objective: Fatigue, which is a common complaint among medical students, is related to poor academic outcomes. Because impaired dietary habits, such as skipping breakfast and taking meals irregularly, are correlated with poor school performances, whether those dietary habits were associated with the prevalence of fatigue was determined in medical students.Methods: The study group consisted of 127 healthy second-year medical students attending Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine. They completed a questionnaire dealing with fatigue (Japanese version of the Chalder Fatigue Scale), lifestyle, and academic performance.Results: On multivariate logistic regression analyses adjusted for age, gender, body mass index, and nocturnal sleeping hours, skipping breakfast (completely skipping breakfast everyday versus having breakfast everyday; odds ratio 7.81, 95% confidence interval 2.00-30.52, P = 0.003) and taking meals irregularly (completely irregular versus always regular, odds ratio 6.89, 95% confidence interval 1.20-39.55, P = 0.030) were positively correlated with the prevalence of fatigue.Conclusion: Skipping breakfast and taking meals irregularly are associated with the prevalence of fatigue in medical students. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.