The understanding of risk factors for eating disorders in male adolescents
| Autor: | Mahmut Zabit Kara, Füsun Çuhadaroğlu Çetin, Nuray Kanbur, Orhan Derman, Devrim Akdemir, Sinem Akgül |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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050103 clinical psychology medicine.medical_specialty Anorexia Nervosa Adolescent Turkey Comorbidity Medical Records Life Change Events 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Interview Psychological medicine Parenting styles Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Bulimia Nervosa Psychiatry Retrospective Studies business.industry Bulimia nervosa Medical findings Medical record 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Retrospective cohort study Mental illness medicine.disease Mother-Child Relations 030227 psychiatry Eating disorders Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. 28:97-105 |
| ISSN: | 2191-0278 0334-0139 |
| Popis: | Objective: The study aimed to describe the medical, psychiatric, and cultural features of adolescent males with an eating disorder (ED). Materials and methods: This retrospective evaluation took place at Hacettepe University, İhsan Doğramacı Children’s Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, and covered a 4-year period between 2010 and 2013. Sixty adolescents were diagnosed with an ED during this period, 47 (78.3%) were females and 13 were males (21.7%) male. All 13 male patients who met full criteria for an ED according to the DSM criteria were included. Medical and psychiatric records of male patients treated for an ED were re-evaluated. Results: The most striking finding of the study was that the female to male ratio became 3.6:1, with the increasing number of male adolescents with an ED. In our study, medical findings and complications of males with ED were similar to those seen in females. However, the most predominant gender difference was the co occurrence of a comorbid physical or mental illness. Conclusion: It is imperative to raise awareness of EDs in males. Although the medical findings of the study suggest that male and female adolescents with EDs are clinically similar to each other, the understanding of certain gender-specific risk factors shown in our study, such as a medical illness and/or obesity and co-morbid psychiatric diagnosis, are essential in raising suspicion. Further studies that especially evaluate cultural and social factors that affect parenting styles for boys are important in addessing possible risk factors for the development of EDs in males within different societies. |
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