Relationship Among Self-Reported Fatigue, Dietary Taurine Intake, and Dietary Habits in Korean College Students - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology - page 248

Table 24.5 Correlation between self-reported fatigue scores and dietary habit score
Physical fatigue Mental fatigue Nervous fatigue Total

Eating breakfast regularly −0.048 −0.11 −0.143* a −0.112

Eating meals at constant
times

−0.106 −0.1 −0.197** −0.153*

Eating three meals a day −0.067 −0.114 −0.148* −0.122

Eating foods such as meat,
fish, eggs, and beans more
than two times a day

−0.154* −0.101 −0.146* −0.151*

Eating greenish yellow
vegetable every meal

−0.114 −0.133* −0.102 −0.135*

Not eat sweet foods (snack,
chocolate, etc.)
everyday

−0.092 −0.143* −0.092 −0.123

Avoiding eating harmful
foods

−0.136* −0.024 −0.201** −0.138*

Total −0.129* −0.096 −0.109 −0.128*

a * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01 (by Pearson's correlation)

24.5 Conclusion

Our study investigated the relationship among self-reported fatigue, dietary taurine
intake, and dietary habits in Korean college students. There was no significant cor-
relation between dietary taurine intake and self-reported fatigue scores. However,
these results show that female students have higher self-reported fatigue scores and
lower dietary habit score compared to male students and there was significant rela-
tionship between dietary habit score and self-reported fatigue scores. Therefore, in
order to reduce self-reported fatigue, it is necessary to provide nutrition education
and counseling for better dietary habit in Korean college students and a further
large-scale study is needed about relationship of self-reported fatigue and dietary
taurine intake.

Acknowledgement This work was supported by Inha University Research Grant.

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