ERIC Number: EJ731850
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Feb
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Brief Report: Psychological Characteristics of Less Severe Forms of Eating Disorders: An Epidemiological Study among 259 Female Adolescents
Cotrufo, Paolo; Gnisci, Augusto; Caputo, Immacolata
Journal of Adolescence, v28 n1 p147-154 Feb 2005
We screened a sample of 259 female students, aged 17-20 years old, by means of the Eating Disorder Inventory 2 (EDI 2) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). Those students identified to be at risk for an eating disorder underwent a semi-structured interview to provide a diagnosis according to DSM-IV criteria. We also considered the prevalence of ''not full-blown diagnosis''. We found two cases of full-syndrome (0.77%), both bulimics, 9 partial-syndrome bulimia nervosa (3.47%) and 1 of partial-syndrome binge eating disorder (0.38%). Moreover, 18 (6.94%) girls met the criteria for subclinical-syndrome, of which the majority was subclinical anorexia (5.79%). We did not find statistically relevant differences between the anorexic and the bulimic samples on the psychological characteristics measured by the EDI 2 subscales. These findings suggest the hypothesis that anorexia and bulimia could have the same psychopathological core and bulimia could be considered as a ''failed'' anorexia.
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Epidemiology, Females, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Incidence, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Psychological Characteristics, Individual Characteristics, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Eating Disorder Inventory
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