Is low Weight Disorder (Anorexia Nervosa) Correlated with Gender, Socio Demographic and Psychological Features?
| Autor: | Miri Kerner, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner, Yuval Arbel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Poverty
business.industry 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Anorexia 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease 01 natural sciences Obesity Anorexia nervosa (differential diagnoses) Respondent Cohort medicine Residence medicine.symptom business Developed country 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Demography |
| Zdroj: | Medical Research Archives. 7 |
| ISSN: | 2375-1924 2375-1916 |
| DOI: | 10.18103/mra.v7i5.1913 |
| Popis: | The objective of the current study is to examine the economics, socio-demographic and psychological determinants of the probability to suffer from low-weight disorder or anorexia nervosa. Unlike the vast literature on obesity, fewer studies have investigated the opposite phenomena, namely, low-weight disorder or anorexia. Given the extra difficulty to diagnose anorexia via Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) validated questionnaires, the advantage of our study lies in the simple quantitative measure we use of BMI≤18. This criterion might be a suitable measure to a western developed country like Israel, in which the probability that BMI |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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