Alcohol Consumption Relation With Nutritional Knowledge and Body Weight

Effect of Alcohol Consumption and Nutritional Knowledge on Body Weight and Composition in a Group of Piacenza Students

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02336204

Enrollment

104

Registered

2015-01-12

Start date

2011-09-30

Completion date

2012-09-30

Last updated

2015-01-12

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Conditions

Binge Drinking

Brief summary

The increase of overweight and obesity in young Italian people, nowadays showed by several epidemiological data, has been related to the misuse of alcohol and to a lack in nutritional knowledge. Thus the aim of our study was to investigate if different nutritional knowledge from could affect body composition and drinking habits of a cohort of local young people. 104 healthy subjects (56 males and 54 females) were recruited using oral advertisements among the students of 18-19 years-old belonging to the Istituto Agrario and the Istituto alberghiero Raineri-Marcora of Piacenza. The subjects were asked to complete a questionnaire on alcohol consumption and another one related to nutritional knowledge. Then anthropometric data were measured: height, weight, waist and hips circumferences, waist-hips ratio and skinfolds were evaluated for each subject and body fat mass was calculated.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 19 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* students

Exclusion criteria

* pregnant or breast feeding * vegan or vegetarian

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
anthropometric measures	1day
questionnaires on nutritional knowledge	1 day

Outcome results