In:
Santé mentale au Québec, Consortium Erudit, Vol. 18, No. 2 ( 2007-09-11), p. 183-196
Abstract:
The following study is part of a research project on the eating habits of adolescent girls and on the vulnerability factors concerning eating disorders. Here the authors focus on the prevalence of various concerns and problems linked to eating habits within a non-representative group of 1,162 adolescents in the Montréal region. Two parameters frequently used in the field reveal that a third of the girls are unhappy with their body and that 14 % of the sampling adopts unhealty attitudes and behaviours in regard to eating habits. Based on several criteria, the prevalence of nervous anorexia is estimated at approximately 0.6 % and that of nervous boulimia at between 0.5 and 2.5 %. These results are comparable to those obtained in other major urban centres of the Western world. In addition, they point to the urgent need to increase awareness among the population and the Québec healthcare field on the subject of eating disorders.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1708-3923
,
0383-6320
Language:
French
Publisher:
Consortium Erudit
Publication Date:
2007
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2140858-0
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