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ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2025

Associations of nutritional awareness, body mass index, mental health, and fitness components among undergraduate university students.

Laila Fathi Zaid AlKilani, Salwa Saad Awad, Jozaa Zaidan ALTamimi, Fatimah Sayer Alharbi

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Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors.

Laila Fathi Zaid AlKilaniDepartment of Physical Sport Sciences, College of Sport Sciences and Physical Activity, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Salwa Saad AwadDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Jozaa Zaidan ALTamimiDepartment of Sports Health, College of Sport Sciences and Physical Activities, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fatimah Sayer AlharbiDepartment of Mental Health Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: The study generally aimed to examine nutritional awareness, body mass index, mental health, dietary awareness, and components of physical fitness among university students by investigating the health behaviors, physical activity, diet, sleep, internet use, and mental health of 153 undergraduate university students. Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional quantitative survey method to evaluate the risky and health-related behaviors, psychological health, and health-related behaviors of female university students. Results: Among them, 66% did not engage in high-intensity physical activities, and 54.9% did not participate in moderate-intensity workouts. Of the participants, 52.9% ate two meals a day, and 43.1% only sometimes ate breakfast. According to the survey, 56% recognized smoking as a contributing factor to health problems, and 60% said stress had a major effect on health problems. Moreover, the results reveal a statistically significant relationship between weight category and depression symptoms ( Discussion: The findings call which calls for encouraging the increase of such studies in the future and conducting them on a larger sample and encouraging the adoption of university programs aimed at raising awareness of the importance of physical activity, healthy nutrition, and mental health.

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femalemental healthphysical activityuniversity studentsweight

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PMCPMC12507332

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