NCT02336204

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
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Binge Drinking

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2015-01-12
• Last updated: 2015-01-12