Nutritional risk among patients with sars-COV-2 infection in a public hospital: A preliminary description

Abstract

Results: A total of 389 students with a mean age 20.5 ±2.0 years participated in the study. The Arabic DEBQ questionnaire consisted of 18 questions. The rotation component matrix showed three components with loads >0.479; "Emotional eating", "Restrained eating" and "External eating". Cronbach alpha was measured for the three components of the AR-DEBQ and showed a good level of internal consistency for our scale (0.907, 0.811 and 0.508 respectively). Gender, alcohol and diet were significantly associated with different DEBQ components (p < 0.001, 0.041 and < 0.001, respectively). Conclusion:The Arabic DEBQ is an effective tool for measuring behavioral factors related to individual eating patterns, including those implicated in eating disorders. Further research should be taken into consideration in order to establish the structure of DEBQ in different samples and determine whether the current findings can be ascribed to dissimilarities in culture.References: No references Disclosure of Interest: None declared.