Resumen de Psychosocial factors associated with diet quality in a working adult population

Erin Poe Ferranti, Sandra B. Dunbar, Melinda Higgins, Jun Dai, Thomas R. Ziegler, Jennifer K. Frediani, Carolyn Reilly, Kenneth L. Brigham

• The associations between specific intra- and inter-personal psychosocial factors and dietary patterns were explored in a healthy, working adult sample of university and health center employees (N ¼ 640) who were enrolled in a prospective predictive health study. Participants had a mean age of 48 (SD ¼ 11) years and were 67% women and 30% minority.

  Baseline psychosocial measures of perceived stress, depressive symptoms, social support, and family functioning were examined for their relationships with three diet quality indices�AHEI, DASH, and the Mediterranean.

  Dietary intake was of moderate quality in this high-income, well-educated, psychosocially healthy population. Social support was positively associated with better diet quality for all three indices (p < .01).

  Further research should focus on socio-environmental factors associated with diet quality.