Social media use and its association with disordered eating among Nutrition Science students

ABSTRACT Objectives: To assess the association between the use of social media and disordered eating and to identify predictors of disordered eating. Methods: Study carried out with 207 Nutrition Science students. Three measures were applied to evaluate sociodemographic data, the use of social media, and disordered eating (Eating Attitudes Test-26). Associations between the use of social media and disordered eating were evaluated by the Chi-square test (p