Materials and methods:
Participants :
Among 525 employees, 94 were not willing to participate, then 431 filled
the consent form. Therefore, 275 of them had complete diet data, however
after considering total energy intakes within the range of 800–4200
kcal, then 211 of participants was taken into the final analysis.
cluster random sampling from
different departments in university.
This descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 211 employees using
cluster random sampling from different departments in Ahvaz Jundishapur
University of Medical Sciences, aged between 18-50 who met the inclusion
criteria. The inclusion criteria were willingness to participate in the
study and age between 18-50 years. The exclusion criteria were
reluctance to participate in the study, history of chronic disease,
following vegan diet, pregnancy and lactation, taking certain
medications.