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Quality of life and bulimic eating disorder behaviors: findings from a community-based sample
1Department of Psychiatry, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. phillipa.hay@adelaide.edu.au
Objective:
The aims were to test relationships between bulimic eating disorder behaviors, and measures of quality of life, and to replicate previous findings with respect to their prevalence and distribution in a representative sample.
Method:
Data were obtained from 3010 interviews of a randomly selected sample of 4400 adult households. Quality of life was assessed with the SF-36 Health Status Measure and the Australian Quality of Life Survey.
Results:
Eating disorder behaviors were associated with significantly lower quality of life scores. On MANOVA, regular current binge eating explained 23% (p < 0.001) of the variance in SF-36 physical and mental health component scores, and extreme weight control behaviors explained 5% (p = 0.001). The main findings of the former South Australian survey were replicated. The mean duration of behaviors since onset was 6.6 (SD, 9.2; median 3) years.
Conclusions:
Eating disorder behaviors were associated with poorer quality of life and were often chronic.
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