Abstract:

The Covid-19 epidemic, which has affected the whole world in the past years, has caused some changes in people's health as well as in their living conditions. As a result of the quarantine, social isolation and stay at home measures applied in the fight against the epidemic, many people have switched to sedentary life. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between intuitive eating behavior, depression and body mass index (BMI) in individuals who switched to working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic period. It was carried out with 158 volunteer participants aged between 20-65, who switched to working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic period and living in different provinces of Turkey. The data were collected online by survey method, between July 2021 and November 2021. There were demographic questions in the questionnaire, and intuitive eating was evaluated using the Intuitive Eating Inventory-2 (IES-2) and depression using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Analysis of the data was carried out in IBM SPSS 25 program. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U Test, Kruskal Test and Post Hoc Bonferroni Test, Spearman correlation were used in the analysis. It was determined that 70.3% of the individuals participating in the survey were female and 29.7% male. A statistically significant, negative correlation was found with the -0.248 correlation coefficient calculated between the sub-dimensions of the intuitive eating scale, 'eating based on hunger and satiety signals' and the BMI values of the participants (p<0.05). A statistically significant, negative correlation was found with the -0.167 correlation coefficient calculated between the sub-dimensions of the intuitive eating scale, 'body-food choice fit' and the BMI values of the participants (p<0.05). There was no statistically significant relationship between the sub-dimensions and total scores of intuitive eating and the scores obtained from the beck depression scale (p>0.05). There was no statistically significant relationship between Beck depression scale and BMI (p>0.05).

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