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M Lameiras Fernández1, M Calado Otero, Y Rodríguez Castro
1Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación. Campus Ourense. Universidad de Vigo. Pontevedra. Spain. lameiras@uvigo.es
Objective:
This present work assesses the prevalence of anorexia nervosa, its partial syndromes, bulimia nervosa and binge eating in a university sample of Galician students (Spain).
Method:
The sample is made up of 298 women and 157 men. The scales used were: Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) and a Questionnaire on eating behavior.
Results:
Women had higher scores in drive for thinness, bulimia, interoceptive awareness, body dissatisfaction and ineffectiveness than men; furthermore the women had lower scores in BMI. We find a very high prevalence, a total of 6.4% of cases of eating disorders.
Conclusions:
The high values of probable eating disorders make it especially necessary to carry out primary and secondary prevention programs in university students populations.
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