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Objective: The most common psychological health problems are depression and stress. Depressive symptoms and stress are increasing day by day in university youth. Since depression and stress negatively affect the health of the young population, it is important that it contribute to the increase of the healthy population. The objective of the study was to evaluate the relationship of depression and stress with tryptophan consumption among university students. Methods: A questionnaire which included descriptive questions, amounts of tryptophan consumption, "Beck depression" inventory and "perceived stress (PS) scale" were conducted voluntarily to 900 undergraduate students studying at İstanbul Aydın University in this correlation study. Results: There was no statistically significant difference was found between students' depression levels and tryptophan consumption levels (p>0.05). A statistically significant difference was found between the perceived coping level and the mean tryptophan consumption level (p<0.05). As tryptophan consumption increases, stress decreases and coping with PS increases. Conclusion: There was no relationship between tryptophan consumption and depression, but there was a relationship between tryptophan consumption and stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is investigate the body perception and eating attitudes of high school students and to evaluate their relationship with BMI. The study is a descriptive study. The study group consists of 721 high school students from Fenerbahçe Anatolian High School at Kadıköy, Istanbul. A survey is applied to the participants and it contains questions on their demographic characteristics and nutritional status, eating attitude scale and body perception scale. A significant difference among BMI values of the participants and their eating attitudes is determined and those participants having the highest impaired eating attitudes are obese with 70.0% (21 people). The difference between the body perception and eating attitude of the participants is significant and participants who have low body perceptions have the highest impaired eating attitudes. There is a significant difference between the class distributions and eating attitudes of the participants and the grades with the highest impaired eating attitudes are the 11th and 12th grades with ratios of 66.9% (85 people) and 65.6% (84 people), respectively. Nearly half the participants have low body perception and 12th grade has the highest impaired body perception by 78.9% (101 people). The lowest body perception BMI group is the obese group with a ratio of 66.7% (20 people). In this regard, generally high school students' body perception is low and eating attitudes are impaired. Obese students have the highest impaired eating attitude. Those who have low body perception, have impaired eating attitude and their BMI is high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]