기능성 변비를 가진 여대생의 식습관, 생활 스트레스 및 건강관련 삶의 질의 관계

초록

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation among dietary habits, life stress and health-related quality of life(HRQL) regarding female college students with functional constipation(FC). The data were collected in 2008 and 86 female college students with FC and 179 normal female college students without FC were included. The diagnosis of FC was based on the Rome Ⅱ criteria, and life stress and HRQL were assessed using self-administered life stress questionnaire and SF-36, respectively. The correlations among dietary habit score, life stress score, and HRQL score were evaluated. The averages of age, height, weight, body fat percentage and body mass index of female college students were 20.8 years, 160.9 cm, 53.7 kg, 27.8 %, 20.7 kg/m2, respectively. The average dietary habit score of “having meals with diverse foods” was significantly lower in constipation group compared to normal group(p<0.05). The average faculty problem score (p<0.05), grade problem score (p<0.05), economy problem score (p<0.05), value problem score (p<0.05), and total stress score (p<0.01) of constipation group were significantly higher compared to normal group. The average HRQL score was 69.7 in constipation group and 73.7 in normal group (p<0.05). There was significantly negative correlations between total stress score and total food habits score (r=-0.221; p<0.05) and HRQL score(r=-0.539; p<0.01) in female college students with functional constipation(FC). These results suggest that female students with FC are highly perceptive to stress and have low HRQL. Thus, appropriate health program to reduce stress level and to improve HRQL are needed, and further study is needed to assess the correlation HRQL and the severity of constipation, and to investigate about the disease-specific quality of life.