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Published on: May 10, 2022
Race, ethnicity, and eating disorder recognition by peers
Margarita Sala1, Mae Lynn Reyes-Rodríguez, Cynthia M Bulik
1a Department of Psychology , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA.
Abstract:
We investigated racial/ethnic stereotyping in the recognition and referral of eating disorders with 663 university students. We explored responses to problem and eating disorder recognition and health care referrals after subjects read a vignette concerning a patient of a different race/ethnic background presenting with eating disorders. A series of three 4 × 3 ANOVAs revealed significant main effects for eating disorders across all three outcome variables. There were no significant main effects across the four different race/ethnicity conditions and no significant race by condition interactions. Lack of general eating disorder recognition and health care referrals by student participants were found. [Supplemental files are available for this article. Go to the publishers's online edition of Eating Disorders for the following free supplemental resource: online appendix containing vignettes 1-3, as described in the "Methods" section].
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