The relationship between social media use, eating attitude and body mass index among nutrition and dietetic female students: A cross-sectional study

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between media using habits, frequency and duration, body mass index on eating attitudes. Material methods: The cross-sectional was conducted with female students who received nutrition dietetics education in Istanbul. A questionnaire consisting of a socio-demographic questionnaire, Eating Attitude Test (EAT-40), Social Media Scale applied 1248 volunteers by face-to-face interview method.Results: It found that 35.7% participants had abnormal attitudes 89.6% showed positive attitude towards social media. 93.7% group indicated media, 0.4% negative difference statistically significant (p=0.001). observed EAT-40 thought an problem, having membership, spending time (p<0.05).Conclusions: have effect attitude; it did not show BMI.