Attitudes Towards Healthy Eating and Diet Satisfaction of Vegetarians: A Cross-sectional Study in Turkey

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of individuals who prefer a vegetarian diet about adequate and balanced nutrition, their dietary satisfaction and the problems they experience. Material and Methods: Participants were administered an online questionnaire including the attitude scale about adequate and balanced nutrition, diet satisfaction scale and questions about the problems they experienced while maintaining a vegetarian diet through Google forms. Results: According to the results of the study, it was determined that vegetarian individuals had high attitudes about adequate and balanced. In detailed analysis, it was found that females had higher attitudes towards adequate and balanced nutrition than males, high school and university graduates had higher attitudes than primary school graduates, and individuals with normal BMI had higher attitudes towards adequate and balanced nutrition than overweight and obese individuals (p