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Kamuran Özdi L1, Gülhan Küçük Öztürk2
1Aged Care Program, Nevsehir Haci Bektaş Veli University, Health Services Vocational School, Nevsehir, Turkey.
Purpose:
To examine the popular dietary habits of nursing students and associated factors.
Design And Methods:
A mixed study with quantitative and qualitative dimensions. Following the evaluation of quantitative data, interviews were conducted with 12 students, and data were analyzed by content analysis.
Findings:
The two main themes created were my mirror and the mirror of society as a vicious cycle. The reasons for being on a popular diet were determined to be the expectation of rapid weight loss, negative emotions, and body and beauty perception of society.
Practice Implications:
It is concluded that students are in a vicious cycle of popular diets depending on different factors and that professional educator nurses have important duties in breaking this cycle.
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