Alcohol Consumption Relation With Nutritional Knowledge and Body Weight

Completed

• Conditions: Binge Drinking

• Registration Number: NCT02336204
• Lead Sponsor: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-09
• Primary Completion: 2012-05
• Study Completion: 2012-09
• Study First Submitted: 2014-12-16
• Status Verified: 2015-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-01-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-01-07
• Study First Posted: 2015-01-12
• Last Update Posted: 2015-01-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 104

Inclusion Criteria

• students

Exclusion Criteria

• pregnant or breast feeding
• vegan or vegetarian

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
anthropometric measures	1day
questionnaires on nutritional knowledge	1 day