Clinical Trial: Alcohol Consumption Relation With Nutritional Knowledge and Body Weight
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Effect of Alcohol Consumption and Nutritional Knowledge on Body Weight and Composition in a Group of Piacenza Students
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 Summary:
Sponsor: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Current Primary Outcome:
- anthropometric measures [ Time Frame: 1day ]
- questionnaires on nutritional knowledge [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome:
Original Secondary Outcome:
Information By: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Dates:
Date Received: December 16, 2014
Date Started: September 2011
Date Completion:
Last Updated: January 7, 2015
Last Verified: January 2015
