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Behçet Hastalarında Beslenme Alışkanlıkları ve Depresyon Düzeyinin Değerlendirilmesi
Assessment of Nutritional Habits and Depression Levels in Behçet's Patients
Murat URHANa, Seda NALÇACIb, Rümeysa ÖNALb, Sümeyra Nur ÇENDİKb, Elif ÇINARb
aEge Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Beslenme ve Diyetetik Bölümü, İzmir, TÜRKİYE
bEge Üniversitesi İzmir Atatürk Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Beslenme ve Diyetetik Bölümü, İzmir, TÜRKİYE
Turkiye Klinikleri J Health Sci. 2020;5(2):201-10
doi: 10.5336/healthsci.2019-70997
Article Language: TR
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ÖZET
 Behçet hastalığı (BH)'nda beslenme alışkanlıklarının, besin tüketimlerinin yeterlilik durumunun ve depresyon düzeyinin belirlenmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Araştırmaya Aralık 2018-Mayıs 2019 tarihleri arasında bir üniversite hastanesinin Behçet polikliniğine başvuran, hastalığı aktif/inaktif durumdaki BH'li 62 hasta ile yaş ve cinsiyet bakımından hastalarla benzer özellikler taşıyan 48 sağlıklı birey dâhil edilmiştir. Çalışmanın etik kurul izinleri alınmış, veriler yüz yüze görüşme yöntemiyle literatürden yararlanılarak hazırlanan anket formuyla toplanmıştır. Besin tüketimlerinin belirlenmesi için 24 saatlik hatırlatma yöntemi ile depresyon düzeyinin belirlenmesi için de Beck Depresyon Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde; ortalama, standart sapma, t-testi ve Pearson korelasyon testi kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: BH'lilerin %37,1'inin günde 2 öğün beslendiği ve en çok atlanan öğünün ise öğle yemeği (%73,5) olduğu saptanmıştır. Hastaların ekmek ve tahıl grubu haricinde diğer besin gruplarından tükettikleri porsiyon miktarlarının sağlıklı bireylerden daha düşük olduğu ve hastaların günlük enerjilerinin yağdan gelen kısmının %37,2±7,74 olduğu belirlenmiştir. BH'lilerin %95,22sinin günlük önerilen referans değerlerin altında süt ve süt ürünleri grubu ile meyveler grubundaki besinlerden tükettiği bulunmuştur. Ayrıca BH'lilerde depresyon puanının (13,5±9,81), sağlıklı bireylerden (8,1±7,44) önemli düzeyde yüksek olduğu ve hastaların %32,3'ünde orta ve şiddetli depresyon semptomları bulunduğu saptanmıştır. Sonuç: Behçet Hastalarının yeterli ve dengeli beslenmedikleri ve depresyon düzeyinin yüksek olduğu, bu nedenle hastalarda ek fizyolojik ve psikiyatrik hastalıkların gelişme riskinin arttığı belirlenmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Behçet hastalığı; beslenme alışkanlıkları; öğün atlama; depresyon
ABSTRACT
 Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the nutritional habits, adequacy of food consumption and depression levels of patients with Behçet's diseases (BD). Material and Methods: The study included 62 patients with BD who were active/inactive in the Behçet polyclinic of a university hospital between December 2018- May 2019 and 48 healthy individuals with similar characteristics in terms of age and gender. Ethics committee permissions of the study were obtained and the data were collected with a questionnaire prepared by using face to face interview method. 24-hour dietary recalls method was used to determine food consumption and Beck Depression Inventory was used to determine depression level. In the analysis of the data; mean, standard deviation, t-test and Pearson correlation test were used. Results: It was found that 37.1% of BD patients were fed 2 meals a day and the most skipped meal was lunch (73.5%). It was determined that the amount of portion consumed by the patients from other food groups except bread and cereal group was lower than healthy individuals and the portion of the daily energy of the patients coming from fat was (%37.2±7.74). It was found that 95.2% of Behçet's patients consumed foods in the milk and dairy products and fruits group under the recommended daily values. In addition, depression score (13.5±9.81) was significantly higher in BD patients than healthy individuals (8.1±7.44) and 32.3% of the patients had moderate and severe depression symptoms. Conclusion: It was determined that patients with BD were not sufficiently balanced and had high levels of depression and therefore the risk of developing comorbid physiological and psychiatric diseases increased.

Keywords: Behçet's disease; nutritional habits; meal skipping; depression
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www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

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