The correlation between the intensity of instagram usage and orthorexia nervosa in Universitas Gadjah Mada students
Background: Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession with eating healthy foods, which has physical, psychological, and social impacts. The use of social media platform such as Instagram is suspected to be one of the risk factors of ON, as health information on...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23382/1/JSKM_22_1_12.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23382/ https://ejournals.ukm.my/jskm/issue/view/1607 |
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| Summary: | Background: Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession with eating healthy foods,
which has physical, psychological, and social impacts. The use of social media platform such as Instagram is suspected
to be one of the risk factors of ON, as health information on Instagram can reach thousands of people despite the fact
that its source is frequently unreliable. Objective: To determine the correlation between the intensity of Instagram usage
and ON among Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) students, as well as the correlation between confounding variables
(gender, monthly income, age, faculty cluster, and nutritional knowledge) and ON. Methods: The research design used
is an observational study with cross-sectional design that involved 529 students. Samples were taken by stratified
random sampling, and data was collected online. Chi square test with ꭤ = 0.05 was used in this study. Results: The
results showed that as many as 55% of students were diagnosed with ON and most of the students had moderate intensity
of using Instagram. There is a correlation between the intensity of using social media Instagram and ON in UGM
students (p value = 0.037<0.05) and there is no correlation of confounding variables (gender, monthly income, age,
faculty cluster, and nutritional knowledge) with ON. Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between the intensity of
Instagram use and ON in UGM students, and no confounding variables were found in this study. |
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