Association of eating attitudes between teenage girls and their parents.
| Autor: | Yanez AM; Department of Epidemiology, Hospital General de Vic, Spain. aina.yanez@caubet-cimera.es, Peix MA, Atserias N, Arnau A, Brug J |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | The International journal of social psychiatry [Int J Soc Psychiatry] 2007 Nov; Vol. 53 (6), pp. 507-13. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0020764007078350 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Mothers of eating disordered adolescents were more likely to have an eating disorder. However, some contradictory findings were reported because some studies failed to find this association. Aims: The main objective of the study was to determine the association of eating attitudes in adolescent girls with eating attitudes in their parents. Methods: A sample of 969 girls from Osona County (Barcelona, Spain) and their parents participated in the study. Girls completed the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and their weight and height were measured. Parents completed questionnaire with self-reported weight and height, demographic characteristics and EAT-26. Results: 10.1% of girls showed high EAT-26 scores (> 20 points), indicating abnormal eating attitudes. Female adolescents were almost three times more likely to have abnormal eating attitudes if their mothers scored high on EAT-26 (OR = 2.8; 95% CI 1.5-5.2). Other significant predictors of high EAT-26 scores were age and obesity. Conclusions: An abnormal eating attitude of the mother was identified as a potential risk factor in the development of eating disorders in female adolescents. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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