Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, 500 University Avenue, 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V7, Canada.
Department of Family and Community Medicine, North York General Hospital, 4001 Leslie Street, Toronto, ON, M2K 1E1, Canada.
Eur J Nutr. 2022 Oct;61(7):3345-3356. doi: 10.1007/s00394-022-02914-y. Epub 2022 Jun 1.
Nutrition and hydration are important components of physician and medical learner well-being; meal-skipping and insufficient hydration are known to negatively impact cognition. Existing data on these phenomena are sparse and rarely considered together; furthermore, there is a lack of literature on interventions to address these problems. We therefore aimed to characterize existing literature on this topic.
We conducted a literature review of existing literature on the prevalence of and reasons for meal-skipping and insufficient hydration in physicians and medical learners.
Reported prevalences varied widely, as did the ways in which the data were collected. Reasons for meal-skipping and insufficient hydration are less studied, but a lack of time is the most commonly reported reason, among a variety of other barriers.
Further research is required to better characterize the prevalences and reasons for meal-skipping in physicians and medical learners. By consolidating the state of current knowledge on this topic in this work, we establish the groundwork for future studies and allow intervention studies to be based on a broader data set.
营养和水合作用是医生和医学学习者健康的重要组成部分；已知不吃正餐和水分摄入不足会对认知能力产生负面影响。关于这些现象的现有数据很少，而且很少将它们放在一起考虑；此外，关于解决这些问题的干预措施的文献也很缺乏。因此，我们旨在描述这一主题的现有文献。
我们对现有的关于医生和医学学习者不吃正餐和水分摄入不足的患病率和原因的文献进行了综述。
报告的患病率差异很大，数据的收集方式也各不相同。对不吃正餐和水分摄入不足的原因的研究较少，但最常报告的原因是缺乏时间，还有各种其他障碍。
需要进一步的研究来更好地描述医生和医学学习者不吃正餐的患病率和原因。通过在这项工作中整合当前关于这一主题的知识状况，我们为未来的研究奠定了基础，并使干预研究能够基于更广泛的数据。
